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RAID 10 is a combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0. RAID 10 can also be referred as RAID 1+0

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Rebuilding RAID 10 array with two failed drives

I have dedicated server with 4 HDD in hardware RAID 10 configuration and It worked fine until yesterday, when It started to crash randomly on couple minutes. I’ve contacted my data center and they’ve ...
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How to rebuild a dmraid RAID10 array?

Q: How do I force a rebuild? The following describes the scenario. I've been experimenting with forcing a RAID10 to rebuild, so I could see what dmsetup status output should look like when a RAID is ...
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What are the Pros & Cons of Software RAID vs Hardware RAID of 4xSSD(512Gig) in RAID10?

I'm getting this server: Supermicro SuperServer 6018R-TDW It comes with this motherboard: Supermicro X10DDW-i I've decided going with 4xSSD(512Gb) in a RAID10. My server is busy with a demanding ...
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RAID 10 Stripe Size for XenServer

Below is our current server configuration. In a few weeks I will be simulating a disaster recovery by installing 5 new disks (1 hot spare) and restoring all VMs from the backups. Will I gain anything ...
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RAID 10: SPAN 2 vs SPAN 4

I am currently configuring RAID 10 (first time doing RAID ever) for a server at work. In the Configuration Utility. I am given the option of either span 2 or span 4. Having never done this before, I ...
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Best span size for 12 x 2TB drives in RAID10

We have just taken delivery of a new JBOD chassis, with 14 x 2TB NL-SAS drives - 2 have already been earmarked for enclosure spares, so we have 12 drives available. I have several options for setting ...
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6 GB/s SAS RAID 10 (6 Drive) vs. 3 GB/s SAS RAID 10 (14 Drive)

I am running MS SQL 2014 Standard and have a Dell MD 3000i iSCSI SAN. Rough specs: Dell R610 With PERC H700 controlling 6 x 2.5" 15K SAS drives (6 GB/s) Dell MD3000i with 14 x 3.5" 15K SAS drives (...
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RAID 1+0 redundancy and data-loss recovery capability against RAID 1

I have a HP ProLiant server with two SCSI drives. I wanted to set up a RAID 1 array but the RAID configurator only allowed me a RAID 0 or a RAID 1+0 array. When either of my drive fails can I recover ...
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How does LSI MegaRAID actually lay out RAID10 sets?

I'm trying to set up a RAID10 set on an LSI MegaRAID controller. It is unclear to me how the RAID controller will actually lay out the RAID set on the physical drives. Part of the problem is that ...
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RAID 10: Does it impact performance if I have 24 small drives in Raid10 vs. 4 larger drives?

Does it impact performance if I have 24 small drives in Raid10 vs. 4 larger drives? The root of the question is does it have any performance or redundancy benefit if I fill out all 24 of my bays with ...
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Software RAID 10 not any faster than s/w RAID 5 on Ubuntu 14.04 box, why?

We are doing some tests on a new database server with 4 x 240 GB SSD disks. From what I have read RAID 10 should be faster than RAID 5 with the same "one-disk loss ok" redundancy. However when ...
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Force RAID 1+0 HP Smart Array to rebuild

I have a RAID10 with status "Ready for Rebuild", but how can I force the rebuild? # hpacucli ctrl all show config Smart Array E200 in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: PA6C90N9SW82IU) array A (SAS, ...
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Is RAID50 OK for a fileserver?

We have a new storage array consisting of 24 x 600GB 10K SAS disks arriving next week, and I'm trying to decide how best to carve up the available space for our 3-node VMware vSphere cluster which ...
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Failing drive in RAID10 array; which degraded state will be least punishing on performance?

Running on LSi 9260-16i, with 16 SAS drives (Seagate Savvio 15k.2). One drive is getting media read errors, so we're going to RMA it out. Which of these is the least performance destroying option in ...
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Mdadm Raid10 - Files corrupt

I have a Raid10 array using software raid on 4*2-tb drives. My OS on this Raid array froze and when restarting my system via Ubuntu-CD i noticed the Raid array was gone. I assembled the raid array ...
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Expand VD in Raid PERC H710, Dell R720 mini

I have purchased Dell R720 server with PERC H710 Raid Controller. Initially I have configured RAID-10 with 6 SAS 300GB Drives. Installed Win2008 R2. Raid10: After deployment I come to add 2 more ...
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LVM RAID10 "Won't be synchronised" - What does it mean?

I was creating an LVM RAID 10 across 4 physical volumes (each 3TB) when I got the following error message: WARNING: New raid10 won't be synchronised. Don't read what you didn't write! My googling ...
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Why I am the raid configuration tool is now allowing me to create RAID 10?

I have an older dell power edge 6800 server. I have upgraded it a bit and I want to utilize it. So I wadded some ram and some drives. it currently has 12 drives. 2 @ (146gb) 10 @ (300 gb) I ...
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9650SE-8LPML is verifying a RAID 10 unit in odd manner?

I have taken over a server with a 3ware 9650SE-8LPML raid controller, the server has 8 disks and I configured it to be a RAID 10, no spares. My questions is is it normal that when you start the verify ...
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RAID 10 and LVM

I have just setup a new SolusVM Xen Node at my DC. I asked them to install CentOS6 with Software RAID 10 and 100GB to root then the remainder to an LVM group for Xen. All in Software RAID 10. The ...
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Preseed RAID10 does not seem to work

I have this config (excerpt) for my preseed d-i partman-auto/method string raid d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ multiraid:...
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6 times slower disk write in RAID10 on Ubuntu 14.04 after rebuild

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Software Raid 10: 4x120Gb Intel 530 SSDs Initial tests: 1.2 GB/s Write 5.2 GB/s Read I did some tests to check if everything will go alright with a failed disk: I set as ...
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Optimal RAID10 configuration for 8 disks and two volumes?

I have an Open-E file server with 8 SAS disks and a MegaRAID 9271-8i controller and I want to configure two logical RAID10 volumes of identical size. One volume has about 66% write access and 33% read ...
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How to display/define Mirror/Stripping pairs with mdadm

I want to make a standard linux software Raid10 over 4 HDD. The server has 4HDDs, 2 pairs from different vendors in order to avoid batch problems. I want to have the mirror over two different Vendors,...
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4096 and 8192 block size read slower than write? by using lsi 9361-8i RAID10

is it possible that 1024 and 2048 block size read speed is faster than 4096 and 8192 block? I'm using lsi 9361-8i with RAID 10 , with 8 x Kingston E50 250G. result: 1024 = Write: 2,251 MB/s Read:...
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Disk Capacity RAID 1 to RAID 10

I have a 4-bay NAS with two 2TB hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. I was planning to upgrade it with 2 additional 4TB drives to a RAID 10 configuration. Now the new capacity I will receive with ...
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Expand Raid 10 set on MegaRAID LSI 9261-8i

I have an existing Raid 10 drive with 8 drives. 4 in each span. I can't figure out how to expand the set by adding two more drives, one to each span. I'm using the MegaCLI command line tool. I ...
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Poor SQL performance on HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2 with raid10

I recently bought HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2 server with 8G's RAM and 4 HP 1TB 6G 7.2k rpm SATA (3.5in) Non-Hot Plug MDL HDD disks. It was surprise to me that HP didn't provide debian drivers for ...
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Downside with moving pagefile to different drive

I've been tasked with managing an old Windows 2003 server which will be decommissioned later this year. I just need to keep the server up and running long enough. The space on the server is running ...
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Why don't enterprise RAID controllers support migration from RAID 5 to RAID 10?

I've been doing some research on the possibility of live migration from RAID 5 to RAID 10 and I'm curious as to why it seems that most RAID controllers (particularly Dell's PERC controllers) don't ...
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Dell T-420 with Perc 310 controller - how do controller channels map to physical drive bays

The Perc 310 has two SAS controller connectors, SAS-A and SAS-B. Each of these supports which has 4 internal mini-SAS, providing a total of eight lanes of PCI Express. Question is how do these two ...
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Configuring RAID 10 using MegaRAID Storage Manager on an LSI 9260 RAID card

Using MegaRAID Storage Manager 13.04 on an LSI 9260 RAID card, which is the correct way to create RAID 10 using 8 drives with maximum redundancy? There appears to be multiple ways to reach the same ...
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SQL Server 2012 RAID Setup and Performance [closed]

At my company we are in the process of setting up a new SQL Server 2012 box. We have 6 physical drives with 3,000 gigs each. We are considering two different RAID configurations and are wondering ...
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Indepedent pairs of RAID 1 is superior to RAID 10

I am rather new to databases. I was reading up on RAID Storage and it seems that the consensus is that RAID 10 is RAID 10 is best is terms of performance and redundancy However at the end article ...
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RAID10 Without BBU, With UPS

My datacenter says that each rack has primary and backup power on each rack. I assume this means there is a UPS for each server. Therefore, do I have any need of getting a BBU for the following setup? ...
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determine which drive in a raid failed windows server

I'm a volunteer assistant IT guy at a local nonprofit. Over the weekend, we had our main server fail, requiring a reboot. After reboot, we were notified that "a volume initialization is in process." ...
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Drawbacks with smaller fdisk partitions, mdadm RAID10, LVM and KVM?

I am setting up a new virtualized server with KVM and LVM. The KVM host and all guests will be installed on a SSD drive. Each guest will have access to a RAID10 array made of 4x3TB sata drives, used ...
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RAID 1 - IOPS Write Penalty 1 or 2

I keep seeing articles describing the RAID IOPS write penalty for RAID 1 (and RAID 10) as 2. RAID 0 would have a penalty of 1, of course, since every write is simply written to disk. RAID 1 is ...
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RAID 10 SSD Benchmarks [closed]

I haven't been able to find any benchmarks for the following setup: Intel Cherry 520 SSD x 4 RAID10 with LSI 9260 writeback-cache enabled. I'm looking to get 1.5gbps sequential
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Growing a hardware RAID-10 array

I am interested how to grow a RAID 10 array on Windows SBS 2011 machine? Basically I have added two additional disks, expanded array and now I want to grow my c: filesystem to take advantage of new ...
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How to move RAID 1 to RAID 1+0

I have two HP disks in RAID 1 (300 Gb), and would like to at 2 additional disks in RAID 1+0 having in total of 600 Gb on C:. I would like to know is it possible to do it using Array Configuration ...
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Does the built-in CentOS software RAID distribute writes?

Will I see a write performance increase going from single disk to CentOS Software RAID10? Any industry estimates on the % increase?
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Concerns of simultaneous failure of SSD Raid1

Since SSD's have a write limit requiring wear leveling one would assume that all things being equal 2 identical SSD drives would wear nearly identically if they mirror data writes. When one drive ...
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large RAID 10 vs small RAID1

The machine will store and serve millions of small files (<15Kb each), and all those files require a total storage space of 400G Considering the exact same SATA hard drives maker and models, on the ...
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Why MongoDB docs recommends to run Raid 10 on EBS?

They seems like to talk only about performance, which I believe it's not the case compared to other hybrid RAID types. See here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Amazon+EC2#AmazonEC2-EBSvs....
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What RAID policies should be used for a XenServer host?

I have a server with a PERC6/i card and a RAID-10 array running XenServer 6.1 with 6x VMs, one of which is SBS 2008 and the rest are a mix of file server, video-on-demand and SQL database server. The ...
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Convert RAID 5 to RAID 10 without data loss

I have a Windows SBS 2011 server on a Dell R610 with RAID 5 configuration [3 disk]. Is there a way to convert it to RAID 10[4 or 6 disk] without losing anything or needing to re-install the whole OS ...
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Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 5, Raid6, Raid 10 Read/Write performance? [duplicate]

Assume a single disk has a baseline of 1W & 1R performance, how does the different RAID configurations behave? My initial guess: Raid 0: 2W 2R Raid 1: 1W 2R Raid 5: ? ? Raid 6: ? ? Raid 10: ...
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How to (hardware) RAID 10 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with 4 drives and motherboard with RAID contoller

I have 4 500GB hard drives. I set up a RAID 10 in BIOS, much like shown here: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/RAID_SATA_ESB2.pdf Then I followed these instructions: http://www.unrest.ca/...
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recovering from raid 10 single disk failiure

I got a terastation with 4 disks in raid 10 setup. But one of them failed recently. Instead of inserting the disk and restructuring is it possible to copy the data to another disk outside the ...