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RAID solution handled by the operating system.

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I'm getting ready to put together a new server with bcache (Linux) to speed up a SAS RAID-5 array. I'll be using cheap NVMe drives as the cache media, with an LSI controller hosting some large ...
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I have a 4-drive mdadm raid5 array (metadata v1.2) comprising 3x 2TB drives and 1x 4TB drive which recently replaced a failed drive. I plan to make all subsequent replacements 4TB drives so eventually ...
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I have a server and a connected JBOD/DAS with 4 16TB hard disks and a single 1TB hard disk. On the 1TB disk I installed Proxmox with Debian 12. Inside Proxmox, I then created a virtualized Arch Linux ...
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With Storage Pools on Windows Server 2025, how can I receive a warning when there is disk errors or a drive failure? It seems to be a missing feature compared to a raid card that screams at you when ...
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I created two RAID1 arrays, md0 and md1. The disks used were sda ​​and sdb, but when adding other disks and rebooting the system, the disks change names. For example, sdb is now called sdc. To test, I ...
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I've always used hardware RAID controllers by 3ware, LSI or Adaptec (and their successors) for my Linux machines which required RAID 1 for their system drive. (Partly additional HBA for ZFS, but that'...
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one of our company's webservers had a hardware failure with /dev/sdb. The drive was replaced and I am currently struggling to find proper information on if a logical sector size matters if the ...
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Debian 12 data server SuperMicro X10SLM+-F 32GB ECC 4 x SATA 14TB connected to MB chipset Intel C224 (also tested with LSI2308 IT - same speed) CPU load max 30% plenty of free RAM all disks created ...
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I want to make a full parity check of two SSDs and tried following command on Debian 12 Bookworm: sudo /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray /dev/md127 However, even after days I always only get this error ...
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I have an Intel Xeon-based system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 with an Intel Software RAID configured. I'm using the mdadm utility for managing and monitoring software RAID devices, and I need ...
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I have Intel Software RAID (Intel® VROC) configured on my Red Hat host machine, and I would like to access its status etc within a Debian-based KVM guest VM. [root@localhost ~]# mdadm --detail-...
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From what I understand, btrfs is implementing RAID 5 and 6 support after having had RAID 0, 1 and 10 support stable for quite a while now. btrfs already has check-summing and background scrubbing. ...
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I want to set up a Hyper-V server to run four production VMs: a Linux database server (HANA), a Windows Terminal Server, and a couple of Windows 10 VMs. Up until now, I’ve always used SATA SSDs in a ...
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Hello i completely broke my server now after trying to resize my /boot to upgrade my OS i shrank my root directory and tried to increase my boot folder but that didn't work really. It gave me some ...
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One of my RAID1 disks failed recently. I've purchased a replacement, connected it up and formatted it as Linux RAID using cfdisk. New drive is /dev/sdc Old drive is /dev/sdd They appear to have the ...

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