Questions tagged [software-raid]
RAID solution handled by the operating system.
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RAID1 array auto removed a totally physically damaged member disk. Should the disk replacement procedure be any different than standard `mdadm --add`?
RAID Setup
One RAID 1 array with 2 members:
sda1
sdb1
Due to hardware failure, sda is not visible in /dev/ anymore and the array also does include it anymore (RAID 1 status: S)
Playbook to replace ...
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How to replace failed disk on Linux Raid (mdadm)
I get an input/output error when I list drives with: fdisk -l
Failed to read extended partition table (offset=3886721022): Input/output error
Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 ...
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Ubuntu RAID Configuration Devices list is empty [migrated]
I want to install Ubuntu Server 22.04.
During the installation process, I want to do the storage configuration for the software RAID as mentioned in this YT-Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Can I make md (Linux software RAID) more fault tolerant?
I have a particular hard drive in a RAID 1 mirror that gets failed out under heavy load, typically, when I run a full backup.
There is nothing wrong with the drive. Ok, it is getting one error when ...
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Which software is recommended for building RAID in Windows 10?
We are running Windows 10 LTSC Enterprise. The workstation has 2 HDDs. I have created RAID1 with Storage Spaces. It is working well. But if I disconnect one of the disks, the notification comes only ...
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BIOS/Hardware Mirror Drive RAID 1 - Reliability, Consistency and Synchronization
Assuming I have enabled in BIOS a (presumably) hardware RAID in mirror aka RAID1 mode (as opposed to Software-one provided by the OS like Windows Storage Spaces), how is it actually ensuring data ...
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SSD Configuration choices for a 2-Way-Mirror Software RAID
I want data redundancy for my SSDs, and so would likely be using a software RAID like Windows Storage Spaces in a simple, fully-provisioned 2-way mirror configuration.
To minimize the risk of both ...
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Debian 12 (bookworm): Installing a software RAID 1 fails with grub error
For a while I have been trying to set up a new server system with a RAID 1 as boot source. That RAID consists of two 4TB Harddisks. So I boot from an USB stick that I have prepared with the ...
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mdadm raid1 showing removed disk
I have a dedicated server which consists of two hard drives with 5 partitions each.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part ...
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Reading from software RAID in parallel is slower than it "should" be, given other benchmarks
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I have seen some somewhat similar questions here, but:
none of them concern reading many files in parallel, and
most are 10+ years old and concern no-longer-relevant hardware and kernel ...
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mdadm --zero-superblock for all devices of a mdraid?
I found no way to remove a mdraid from a server with one command.
I can stop it via mdadm --stop /dev/md0
But the superblock is still in the devices.
mdadm --zero-superblock DEVICE needs every device (...
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How can I speed up a zfs resilver on a 24x 16TB drive draid2 array: "117T total... 47 days 02:31:23 to go"
(My apologies for the multiple edits to clarify formatting)
As above. The drives show no SMART errors.
Is there a way to check for HBA <--> drive communication errors?
This is running under ...
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How does VMWare vSAN's RAID5/6 work
BLUF: How does VMWare's implementation of RAID5/6 work?
Below is VMWare's chart for RAID5/6 in vSAN:
It seems VMWare is altering RAID's terminology. When I hear RAID6 I think two parity of something; ...
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Mdadm Raid5 kicking non-fresh drive from array
I set up a mdadm raid5 with 3 drives initially: sdc1, sdd1, sde1. They array creation was successful without issues. Later I decided to extend the array using one more drive. After proper partitioning,...
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Debian bookworm installation software raid grub fails with dummt error
On a server I'm trying to install Debian Bookworm with software RAID1 with three disks. I'm following this guide. Three disks have been configured to use RAID and I've setup the RAID1 device as in the ...
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Replacing a single SSD in 4 disk mixed software RAID 1 & RAID10 system
I'm about to replace a single SSD in a 4 SSD RAID 1 & RAID10 system. My webhoster will only do the drive replacement, but not help with adding it back to the array after. I've not done this before,...
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SSD Software-Raid-0 Ubuntu not as fast as expected
I have an MB ASRock B650 Phantom with two SSD 1TB Samsung 990 PRO m.2 PCIe 4 drives. I set them up in a software Raid-0 with lukscrypt on Ubuntu. The SSD should reach 7.450 MB/s reading, in my naivety ...
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ZFS I/O Error, Kernel Panic during import
I'm running a raidz1-0 (RAID5) setup with 4 data 2TB SSDs.
During midnight, somehow 2 of my data disks experience some I/O error (from /var/log/messages).
When I investigated in the morning, the zpool ...
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Best practice to install proxmox (7 or newer) on server
i did a lot of research and i am still wondering, where to install os (proxmox). We have ProLiant DL560 gen8 and gen9.
My options:
micro SD card 32/64GB, not good because of lots of writings from
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Is it possible to recover data from an Intel PERC H710 Adapter RAID Controller disks into another server with SAS controller
I have a Dell T420 server with a PERC H710 Adapter RAID Controller. I had a RAID 1 with two hard drives. And another disk into the same controller, with no RAID only for backup.
The Motherboard of ...
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Migrating server and backup server to bigger RAID 1 (software) arrays
I have 2 boxes. The server (actually an ownCloud server) and a backup server. Both are running Ubuntu servers.
The main server has a RAID 1 array of 2x2TB drives.
The backup server has a RAID 1 ...
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Many drives in two RAID6 arrays simultaneously failed, seem to be working after reboot except SMART long test
in my storage server, I operate three RAID6 Linux software arrays. Everything was working fine until it was not.
There are two RAID6 arrays and one RAID5 array, all consisting of SATA drives, all ...
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Restore 4-Drive RAID5 array after accidentally reinitializing last 2-Drive as RAID0
I have an Asustor NAS with RAID 5 4-Drive running, after system update it reboot into the initialize page in web console, I think it's part of the upgrade process so I started the initialize progress, ...
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RAID1 M.2 SSD (2 Drives) | 1 Failed, I removed and Replaced with a new one, but its state stays "removed"
I have a Ubuntu Server RAID1 M.2 SSD (2 Drives) where 1 Failed, I removed and Replaced with a new one, but its state stays "removed".
I am new to RAID Stuff, Below are my RAID Details:
cat /...
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OS doesn't recognize harddisk at inital startup but after reboot
I have a Debian 11 server with 4 HDD. Two of them are in a Raid 1 array.
When I shutdown the server completely and then turn it on again, the boot routine stops because it cannot find the Raid 1 ...
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How to delete Software RAID1 partition?
I have Debian 11 server with software RAID 1 without lvm:
root@debian-base ~ # lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme1n1 259:0 0 3.5T 0 disk
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Best way to clone a single disk from a Software RAID1 Array in Linux server
How can I clone a single HDD bootable disk from a Software RAID1 Array in Linux server? It is currently a two-disk HDD mirror array. I have physical access to the server, and it has empty bays for ...
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RAID patrol write to force sector remap/rewrite?
So I have a HPE S100i SR Gen10 software RAID 1 device that hosts 2 SATA SSD's for a Windows boot partion. The HPE Storage Array management software looks like it found a problem on the SSD's during a ...
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Disk pair not usable after moving from hardware RAID (Windows) to software RAID (Linux)
A long time ago I created a RAID1 pair from the boot menu of a JMicron JMB363 card. All was working fine under Windows and the RAID1 array was recognized as a single disk. I don't remember exactly how ...
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Is Software RAID1 faster on a larger SSD?
I am evaluating 2 CentOS servers, in terms of performance of reading and writing to the database. The database sits on an SSD RAID1 pair, with MySQL 5.7 on each server. Server 2's specs are a bit ...
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mdadm RAID1 degraded but shows active partition on non-present drive
I ran into an issue with a degraded mdadm RAID1 array on a server I inherited:
The server has two identical M.2 SSD drives with 256GB capacity each in a RAID1 config via mdadm for the operating system ...
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Erratic SMART readings on one member of a RAID 1 array
I am managing a server that uses 2 nvme ssds on RAID 1 connectivity.
At once point I lost access to one of the 2 and got my normal raid array degraded mails from mdadm.
So I asked from the hosting ...
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mdadm RAID5 mismatch, which file(s) on ext4 filesystem are affected?
After a scrub of my 4-disk RAID5 mdadm array I got these log entries:
Dec 03 07:20:53 srv10 kernel: md1: mismatch sector in range 204340608-204340616
Dec 03 07:20:53 srv10 kernel: md1: mismatch sector ...
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How to have a RAID1 accessible from both Ubuntu and Windows?
This topic has been discussed many times, but i didn't find anything specific to my situation.
I would like to create a RAID1 with 2 sata drives (same brand, model,capacity). My objective is to have ...
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Insufficient suitable allocatable extents error when performing RAID takeover
To improve performance while still keeping redundancy, I am trying to convert the root file system of a NAS from a RAID 5 logical volume to a RAID 10 logical volume, while keeping the same number of ...
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Removed failed disk from
I have a problem with a software raid running mirror. One disk is dead and the server cannot find it. Normally I would have removed it as well.
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1
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Growing a RAID-10 on Synology NAS?
I was hoping to add two additional disks to my Synology NAS. Currently it is configured as a four disk RAID-10, no SHR, BTRFS, single volume system. Unfortunately extending a RAID-10 is not possible ...
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Shrink one of the disks in a multi device BTRFS filesystem
My root partition is running out of space and I have no other SATA slots. I have a BTRFS raid0 and I would like to shrink one of the partitions I used for the BTRFS-raid0 and add it to the root ...
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Slow read speed in ZFS mirror (slower than write speed, and very slow for small chunk sizes)
I have a server running debian on top of a ZFS 3-way mirror of Exos X18 18TB (ST18000NM001J).
I'm benchmarking it and I'm finding some surprises for the read rate under certain conditions.
But first, ...
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MDADM Nvme raid Slower than traditional HDD, need enlightenment
I have setup server about 20 days ago with new nvme, before setup raid mdadm the two Nvme samsung 980 pro 1TB i test bench have IO speed average 1.5G/s each nvme, but after creating raid 1, IO nvme ...
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How to convert mdadm raid1 to single driver and keep the data?
I have a raid1 created by mdadm in the root partition on /dev/nvme1n1p2 and /dev/nvme0n1p2, efi boot partition is on /dev/nvme1n1p1. Then I followed some commands to remove one of the disks and ...
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DegradedArray event after removing raid with mdadm
My new server (ubuntu22) from hetzner has 2 ssds and and an additional big hdd that is intended to be used for back-ups only. Initially 3 raids were preinstalled, and the biggest part of an hdd was ...
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Unable to Install Linux Mint on RAID
Second week now than I'm trying to setup Linux Mint on software RAID5 without success.
I'm able to setup the software RAID5 on the live CD with three 240GB SSD, then the installation setup fails to ...
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Creating a RAID 1 via mdadm ends with completely filled one of drives after sync
I have a server with 2x 1TB NVMe drives and I want them to work in software RAID 1 (mdadm) as a system drive.
After creating and waiting for sync of the array I'm ending with one of the drives in ...
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Can RAID be accidentally configured twice?
I am renting a server from Hetzner, which had 2x 8TB disks. I believe they were listed as RAID 1 (though can't find anything to confirm that anymore), which I would have assumed would have given me 16 ...
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Removing removed disk from Raid-1 in MDADM
I have a server where 2 disks were in Raid-1. Disk-1 went faulty and due to some reasons I had to take reboot of the server and below is the current status after that. Now, I am unable to remove the ...
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LVM: How to remove the extra segment created when converting RAID1 to RAID5?
I had two 1T HDD and a 500GB RAID1 LVM LV across them. Then I added another 2T HDD, and converted the LV to RAID5 using
pvcreate /dev/sdd
vgextend ubuntu-vg /dev/sdd
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Weekly RAID check affecting my system - any way to mitigate?
I recently got my webhost (Hetzner) to add a paid of 16TB SATA drives to my webserver. Currently using 2.5TB of them. They're RAID 1 mirrored.
I also have two 4TB nVME drives with 700GB currently on ...
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Are affordable hardware raids with BBU still worth it?
We have done a lot of research and got conflicting answers from experts. What is your opinion on the following?
14 x 16 TB HDDs (Raid 10 -> 100 TB usable)
HW: SGL 8405 + AEC-82885T + BBU (...
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Software RAID Options Combining Internal SATA & External USB?
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I currently use a hybrid server-workstation setup for my primary workstation. Basically, just a Fedora base running Linux KVM, on which I then containerize a couple Linux flavors & a ...
