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Questions tagged [stripe]

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How to create a virtual machine from a .img disk image?

I downloaded a disk image used for a wargame hosted by stripe, but I cant figure out how to create a virtual machine from this image. I'm using virtualbox, but I could use another tool if it would be easier
everett1992
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Why can't RAID 0 utilise all disk space on two different sized disks?

To quote the Wikipedia article on RAID: A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 100 GB disk is striped together with…
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ZFS performance issue

i recently set up a FreeNAS server with the following specs: 2.2Ghz AMD Processor 5GB RAM (just put in what i had) 500GB system drive (with a data partition, probably UFS?) 2x1TB data drives in a ZFS stripe configuration Gigabit network at both…
Maciej Swic
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Hardware RAID 0 without OS re-installation

I have Ubuntu & Windows 7 installed on my hdd. Can I mirror the image of the hdd to the second identical drive? Is this not recommended (i.e have to re-install every OS)? If it is okay to mirror, is there anything else to do to make hw RAID 0…
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Windows re-install - striped volume not detected

I've reinstalled Windows (moving from two RAID0 NVMe SSDs to a single NVMe SSD), and I've had two Windows striped volumes (2x 1000 GB SATA SSD, 2x 4000 GB SATA HDD) for data. When reconnecting the disks of those striped volumes, the drives now show…
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Server 2016 Storage Spaces and NumberOfColumns

I think we all know about the NumberOfColumns issues: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tip_of_the_day/2015/03/17/tip-of-the-day-numberofcolumns/ That said, let's pretend to plan the following (at home, not enterprise): create a 2 disk stripe…
Fabian S.
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LVM : lvextend on striped volume

This is my first question in "stack"-systems and... it's probably very silly. Especially because I think I know the answer, but as it's about some production system with critical data, I'd like to be sure and have a little confirmation. So, the…
Paul Zakharov
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Solaris ZFS Mirroring - is different stripe widths valid?

I have found many articles about using ZFS mirroring with different sized disks, and it appears to be possible to grow a mirror by using larger disks. Is it possible to consolidate a stripe onto larger disks but fewer of them using mirroring? We…
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Lines in monitor since installed new graphic card

I installed a Geforce RTX 3070 graphic card on my PC and when I restart the PC, all I can see on the monitor is stripes (see image). The PC has a 650w power supply, an Asus VG248QG monitor and an Asus Tuf Gaming Z590-plus motherboard. What could be…
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What is the upper limit of gstripe (RAID 0) performance in FreeBSD?

I've set up FreeBSD 7.X using gstripe (RAID 0) with two 320 GB SATA disks and raw read speed went from 70 MB/s to 110 MB/s. I'd like to know if I can reasonably expect similar gains (say roughly 200 MB/s) if I add two more identical disks to the…
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Any concerns about striping different sized SSDs using ZFS in Freenas?

I have a few decent, but differently-sized SSDs lying around that I would like to use in a stripe in Freenas. The sizes are: 2 x 240GB, 1 x 256GB, 1 x 1TB. Using a stripe, this gets me to ~1.73TB. Now Freenas warns that differently sized disks are…
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