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When I use four drives, one operates very slowly
I’m experiencing unusual behavior with my system. When I attempt to write to four disks concurrently. In fact, the last disk (/dev/sdd) consistently operates at a speed ranging from 40MB/s to 5MB/s.
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Moving from Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 to a different manufacturer
my Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 has died, problem with the power and/or power supply, so I want to move the 4 drives set up in RAID 5 to another NAS. I want to move to a different manufacturer so what is ...
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Trouble understanding difference between disk and drives
So I'm studying for the A+ and we are currently learning about RAID configurations. It says Raid 0 requires 2 disk while Raid requires 2 drives. However wouldn't Raid 0 still require two drives ...
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How do I access a Windows 10 Storage Spaces from another Windows 10 install?
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So a while ago (maybe 3 weeks ago) I decided to divide my NVMe in half to duel boot Windows and Linux. In the process I somehow deleted my Windows boot partitions or something. I honestly ...
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Software RAID10 done via Windows 10 - would it remain after system re-installation?
Configuration: 4x1TB HDDs added into a storage space in Windows10 with 2-way mirroring, resulting in 2TB storage (so, I believe, "software-RAID10"):
screenshot of the setup
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Could ZFS fix silent corruption on a single drive with two mirrored partitions?
ZFS can detect silent data corruption (or "bitrot"); with a proper mirroring or raidz setup it may also repair such corruption. Thus, would it be possible to split a disk into two (or more) ...
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What kind of raid I have?
I have the raid option on bios and I got Intel chipset SATA/PCIe RST premium and Microsoft Storage Spaces controllers under storage controllers on device manager but both my disks on basic mode. Is ...
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Can I partition a RAID 1 drive to replicate data that is now on multiple drives?
I am getting this Western Digital RAID 1 array (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B074R59TLB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1).
Currently I have data spread across three internal ...
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How to combine a bunch of different sized SSDs into one volume in Windows?
I have six old SATA ssd of different sizes and brands (100 to 512 GB) collecting dust in a drawer. I would like to put them into my PC as one large JBOD volume, and use this for installing Steam games....
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I can not remove disk from Storage Space
I have a storage pool that shows low capacity but there are actually at least 2.55TB free.
The storage pool is a simple drive so there is no redundancy. I am trying to remove one drive but I am not ...
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ZFS and RAID configuration in a personal virtualization Proxmox 6.2 server
I happen to have this unused computer, and I upgraded its hardware a bit so I can use it as my personal platform for virtualized small servers. I plan to put Proxmox 6.2 on it but, before I install it,...
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Can I set up a Raid 0 and access it on Mac + Win 10
I have a Z820 with two OS PCIe SSDs:
960 Pro NVMe (Windows 10 OS)
970 Plus NVMe (MacOS Mojave)
Can I set up a RAID 0 storage array [Highpoint 3740A] using two 4TB HDDs, then access the storage array ...
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Sequentially fill-up drives unRaid-way
Is there a linux tool or script that will enable me to fill hard drives sequentially like with unRaid and grow my volume by adding drives when needed? I'm not after redundancy here.
It should put ...
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Best way to create a single logical volume with redundancy with heterogeneous set of discs?
I am using an ubuntu 18.04 computer in which I want to have a single logical volume (seeing all my drives as a single unit) but also having at least 1 drive fault recovery.
I have this setup in order ...
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Restore RAID 0 with one member disk having been written to
Due to a bad overclock I had to reset my CMOS. This caused my RAID 0 to show up as "failed". One disk was detected as member the other detected as "Non raid disk".
I have no reason to believe that the ...
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