Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I have Marvell hardware raid 1. After pushing reset or any other incorrect shutdown raid is degraded. Is it possible to create hardware … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question I’m building a small home server, and in looking at software and/or hardware RAID1 and RAID5 and ZFS and whatever, I thought, “what … Read more
I’m using amazon, and there is docs everywhere to use xfs. Is xfs a software based raid? Is it fast? Answer XFS is not a RAID implementation. It is a filesystem. It does happen to have some nice tweaking ability. Some of those tweaks increase the performance of the filesystem when used in a RAID … Read more
I recently used hdrecover to repair a disk and it successfully repaired three bad sectors. How does hdrepair function on raid arrays, is it likely to break the array by repairing sectors? Answer hdrecover can damage file systems and RAID systems and it should never be used on a production system – on a RAID … Read more
I have a server running in RAID 5 (software raid with 3 disks). Is there a way to disable the RAID 5 and just work on 1 disk (without formatting the pc)? (+Does changing RAID count as a hardware change and does it affect the Windows OS activation?) Answer In a simple manner? No. Windows … Read more
I’ve purchased a new dedicated server with 2 x 240GB SSD drive, and installed Ubuntu 16.04 image from the provider’s control panel which by default creates the software RAID 1. I also installed Webmin on this server and after looking at the Webmin’s system info screen I understand that I’m only getting 204GB free disk … Read more
Hi ordered a server from Hetzner and added a 500GB SSD to the server. Ran the installerimage and Im not sure Software Raid is working on all three Hard Drives of mine. How can I add Soft Raid to the newly added SSD as well? I don’t mind reinstalling the server. Hard Disks I have … Read more
I accidentally deleted the partition table of 2 drives in my 4 drive RAID6 by reversing the order of sudo sgdisk -R=/dev/sdb /dev/sdz parted /dev/sdb print currently reports: Model: ATA ST2000DM008-2FR1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I would like to use RAID1 with 1 SATA disk and 2 USB disks PS: This is an ARM board (cubietruck) with only … Read more
I have a raid array with several drives marked as removed. I want to add them back in, but am not sure how to do so. [root@tera2 ~]# mdadm –detail /dev/md3 /dev/md3: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Nov 30 07:39:25 2012 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 1940681216 (1850.78 GiB 1987.26 … Read more
