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RAID5 with on-board controller, is it possible to move the HDDs to a new server?
Repeating what Mark Henderson said on Server Fault:
If you have a dedicated RAID controller that plugs into a PCI port, then you should be fine. All of the RAID data will be stored on the ...
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RAID 5 - replacing failed disks with larger disks
With traditional RAID1, data is spread linearly – a given sector on the RAID volume will be written to roughly the same place on all physical drives. Adding more space at the end of the RAID volume ...
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Bad performance with HP P840 and P440ar and consumer SSD in Raid 10 or consumer HDD in Raid 5
Turn your HP P440ar RAID card into HBA by following the sequence below.
Get into HP SmartArray configuration utility by pressing “F10” during the boot process
Delete all previously created RAID sets ...
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Is there a way to install Windows onto Dynamic disks?
Officially, Windows supports using Dynamic disks for the system volume, but only in the "Mirror" mode, as that's the only mode supported by the minimal drivers used by the Windows bootloader ...
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RAID Hard drive partition lost - Any way to recover?
What is a good solution for this to never happen again in the future?
It's understandable to want to prevent disaster. But you can't prevent every situation that puts your data at risk. Some things ...
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RAID5 with on-board controller, is it possible to move the HDDs to a new server?
I once tried this as part of a disaster recovery test. As Lister already pointed out, the only guarantee of success is using a dedicated RAID controller and have a spare one (or two) waiting for their ...
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How do you increase hard drive space on an Intel hardware RAID 1 with larger disks?
During the BIOS boot cycle you should be presented with the option to enter into the RAID settings. From there you should be able to extend the size and then grow the filesystem once it's booted back ...
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Any advantages of having Raid0 with single drive?
Oddly, I was just forced to do exactly this as the only means to get Windows 10 to see the hard drives on out-dated server hardware. For whatever reason the passthrough mode would not function so I ...
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RAID5 with on-board controller, is it possible to move the HDDs to a new server?
I've done that.
I did not know what the stripe size was, or whether there was some other structures on the disk to control things. So I used a software product that, among other things, can recover ...
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RAID 1 using Dell PERC H330, with no cache and no battery
You are right saying that controller does not have memory cache nor battery. But the only thing that happens when you do not have those components is the controller works with the "Pass-Through" ...
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Ssd usage shows 100 percent for 0.1 Mb/s
You may check the drive SMART values to rule out a hardware fault.
Usually hardware manufacturers tell you the drive speed for the best possible workload. In general SSD IO isn't just limited by bit ...
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While using RAID 1 do all drives show up as one?
There are many different possibilities here.
First, you can have hardware or software RAID. Hardware RAID is the "true" one which is OS independent and the OS does not even know how the RAID ...
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Win11 21H2->22H2 - Areca RAID card stops working
The issue is with the hyper-v & sandbox drivers used in 22H2.
Uninstall them from the optional feature list and Areca will work again.
I have the same issue, but luckily i found the reason that ...
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Unable to configure drives on Intel S500VSA server board.
An existing raid may of been detected - Wipe both partitions with a new partition table on another machine then try again.
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Can the Dell H730 Raid Adapter be used in none Dell boards?
Yes, These cards are perfectly capable of working in any PC based system with the compatible PCI-E 3.0 slot. They are not limited to the specific brand manufacturer. I.E. Dell or HP but you may be ...
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PCI RAID controller compatibility
Generally speaking you can place a higher level PCI card in a lower level slot, but not all lower level cards will work in higher level slots due to missing +5v line in 2.2 and higher slots. There is ...
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Can you move a RAID from a dedicated controller to on-board motherboard raid?
The matter is complex.
While direct reconnection works on similar controllers, RAID controller manufacturers often do not use the same RAID algorithm and format. RAID table information written by one ...
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Can you move a RAID from a dedicated controller to on-board motherboard raid?
Most likely you cannot. This is because the implementation of the RAID systems are different. The only way that works 100% is to copy files elsewhere, setup a new RAID with the motherboard and then ...
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Why I don't see any messages of megaRAID initialization?
Some BIOS just hide these messages, and some times you need to go into the advanced part of the BIOS, and tweak a few settings. Since, I can't see you BIOS I can't tell you what your manufacturer ...
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