Questions tagged [hardware-raid]
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Onboard RAID vs Software RAID
My motherboard, an Asus M4a79t Deluxe, advertises RAID 0/1/5 capabilities. My limited understanding is that onboard RAID is better than software RAID. Is this necessarily true? Is an onboard RAID controller closer in performance to a software…
Mantas Vidutis
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Hardware or Software RAID and Filesystem Type?
I'm looking to build a pretty simple RAID-5 or RAID-6 array and I'm looking into my options. The machine will be a 64bit Ubuntu Linux Server and will essentially be used as a backup/file server. I'll need to store pretty large files, so a FAT-32…
Naftuli Kay
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RAID5 with on-board controller, is it possible to move the HDDs to a new server?
I am wondering how safe a hardware RAID configuration can be.
In case of a HDD failure, I just need to replace the damaged hard drive. What if the server motherboard crashes? Is it possible to get the HDDs and put them in a whole new server without…
nowox
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Can I run multiple RAID arrays on a single RAID card?
I"m looking to buy a hardware RAID card for my Linux computer which I'm building, and I'm specifically considering this Intel model.
I'm planning on running multiple RAID arrays in my computer: a RAID-0 array for two SSDs and another RAID array for…
Naftuli Kay
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Hardware RAID - what happens if the motherboard or controller fails?
I want to set up a RAID 5 array in a machine that has an intel motherboard. It has built in raid (sata). My concern is what happens if the motherboard fails?
How can I take those hard drives and move them to a different machine - with a…
Scott Sz
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Multiple operating systems/partitions on a hardware RAID array?
I've read that running multiple operating systems/boot partitions in RAID arrays doesn't always work as planned and is difficult at best. Is this true only of software RAID arrays? If so, that makes a lot of sense, as software RAID would run at the…
Naftuli Kay
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move RAID controller + HDDs + data (RAID5) to new motherboard
I have a HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 RAID controller with 4 HDDs on my MSI P6N SLI mainboard and want to move the RAID controller with its HDDs and data to my new computer that has a Asrock H61M-ITX mainboard. I am using RAID5.
What is the recommended…
user150605
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Why are hardware RAID solutions relatively expensive?
I was looking more recently into building a RAID-10 array for good drive performance and parity, and I started looking into hardware RAID cards. I was thinking I'd be paying under $100 for one, but it seems that the good ones run anywhere from $300…
Naftuli Kay
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RAID vs AHCI on Windows7 x64 ASUS
I have an ASUS p5ke-wifi/ap which has built-in RAID controller. From the BIOS, I can choose between 3 controller types:
IDE
RAID
AHCI
In that order. This setting was set to AHCI when I installed Windows7 Pro x64 and everything's fine. I have 3 hard…
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Is there a way to install Windows onto Dynamic disks?
I like using the Dynamic disks with striping in Windows and was wondering if I could install from a Windows ISO onto a set of striped dynamic disks.
So far in my testing, that's not possible. I get that it's a chicken 'n egg problem, but I figured…
Sawtaytoes
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Any advantages of having Raid0 with single drive?
Are there any advantages of having a Raid0 configuration with a single drive? Both Intel controllers and LSI controllers I'm using allow for Raid0 creation using a single drive.
Is there any performance gain / whatnot by doing this? I've found this…
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On-board RAID vs Hardware RAID
They technically are both "hardware" raids, but what really sets the two apart? Wouldn't on-board raid basically be a software raid since they share the same processor.
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Does the PERC H310 Raid Controller support hard drives above 2 TB (e.g. 3 TB)?
We received a new machine (Dell Precision T3600) with a PERC H310 RAID Controller.
Due to some troubles during the installation I started to read a bit about that RAID card, and I found some sources, that would state, that this card does not support…
ChrisZZ
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Disk utilization 100%, no read or write
Our disks on one of our servers are showing 100% utilization but no read or write. This Gist contains the output of iostat -xc 1 and errors on syslog. This one has the status info from the RAID card sudo tw-cli /c6 show. (All output is also…
refik
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Prevent Windows 2003 blue screen upon boot after changing to RAID?
Here's what's happening.
I havent been using hardware RAID on my motherboard, but since I got new disks today I changed from normal SATA to RAID and rebooted.
I set up the RAID, three disks, one of them for the OS, the two other RAIDED as one.…
Nils
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