Questions tagged [raid1]
RAID 1 or Mirrored RAID uses two or more disks that store the same data.
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RAID1 Recovery after Degradation
Below is the output from lsblk, mdadm and /proc/mdstat for my 2 disk Raid1 array
anand@ironman:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 ...
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How to create LVM RAID 1 with 4 disks of 2 different sizes?
I have a system with
2 x 1TB (NVMe SSDs)
2 x 2TB (SATA SSDs)
disks and would like to create a RAID 1 system using all available disks (so I have a 3TB RAID1 system at the end). Unfortunately, most ...
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Recovering a file by mounting a Synology RAID1 disk in Ubuntu (mount, mdadm, and losetup issues)
I'm working with a Synology RAID1 system and deleted a file that wasn't yet backed up. To recover the file, and since an undelete approach seems to be impossible, my idea is to mount a single RAID1 ...
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Windows-Server-2019 - Raid 1 Software - Could not convert Disk to Dynamic security enabled on Disk
I installed a fresh Windows Server 2019 on ONE of two identical Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1M.
I don't have an integrated RAID controller on my MB ASUS_H110m-A/M.2 so I wanted to try a software RAID 1, ...
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Does Software RAID-1 Double The Writes Over The Controller/Interface?
Say I have two hard drives that max at 200 MBytes/sec writes per hard drive. Now let's say both drives are in a USB enclosure that maxes at 300 MBytes/sec writes for the entire enclosure.
When ...
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Raid 1 default disk capacity is lesser than the disk sizes. Any ideas? Intel Raid Storage Technology - Raid from Bios
Here the screenshots I think they explains everything
The disks are advertised as 1 TB and the real size of the disks are 931.5 GB
I have installed windows server without raid setup for ...
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RAID1 clean, degrade
after a fire in my hosting, i finally recovered access to my Debian 9 server. I can enter in recovery mode but i can't run the server in normal (HDD) mode.
If i run /cat/mdstat i have 4 RAID 1 entries:...
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Recovering data from a single-disk raid1 array [closed]
I had an idea of a Raspberry Pi file server using multiple external disk drives in a RAID array. For starters I only had a single 1TB disk so I setup a raid1 array on that disk with the intent on ...
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Reusing a disk which was in the RAID array
My DC has added a new hard disk. It appears as md124 inactive sdc1. When I try to mount, the error is unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member',
I need to use this disk for backup VM. Can I just do ...
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Identify HDD failure by sound + Is it safe to run smartctl on a mounted RAID1?
Basically, I have two WD HDDs in a programmatic RAID1 (no special hardware):
$ lsscsi --verbose
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD10EFRX-68F 0A82 /dev/sda
dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0 [/...
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RAID1 array always degraded when rebooted after changing SATA controller
My software RAID1 arrays (/boot, /) always become degraded when restarted after adding SATA controller.
It's CentOS 7.
Here is what happening and what had been done:
I made 4-disks RAID1 arrays with ...
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How does Linux MD software RAID avoid assembling old and new devices into the same array?
On a Linux MD software RAID1 I removed a failed drive and added a new one. (All fine now.) The old drive and the new were never in the system at the same time.
Do I see that right, that adding the old ...
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RAID 1 HDD replacement with used HDD
We have an HD Proliant G8 with 2 HDDs built RAID 1. One of the HDD drive light becomes amber and iLO shows Bay 2 disk has a failure. I'd like to replace the failed drive with one pulled from other ...
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mdadm: power failure during raid1 rebuild
RAID1 array created with mdadm; array was rebuilding when there was a power failure. On coming back up, the array seems to be dead.
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : inactive sdb1[2](S) ...
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How to expand logical volume in HP ML150 gen 9 , smart hba h240
I have replaced two hotplug 300gb sas drives with 600gb sas drives (raid 1) . The smart storage administrator have no option of increasing the logical volume to the new drives. So now i'm stuck with ...
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On Ubuntu, how do you recover data from a single disk of a raid array from another device
I have a 2 disk NAS device using RAID 1 mirroring. When disks started failing I wanted to buy bigger disks so as to upgrade the volume size. However the device couldn't handle mirroring the original ...
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Data layout on RAID-1 Array
For the sake of this question, assume a RAID-1 array of two identical drives.
RAID-1 (Mirroring) stores an identical copy of the data on both drives.
How identical is the drive layout?
Are the drives ...
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Added 4Tb HDD to Iomega IX2-200 but cannot extend the volume
I have a Iomega IX2-200 which came with 2Tb (1.8Tb usable) space.
It has two disks set up as RAID1.
I am trying to upgrade this to 4Tb disks.
So far this is the process I have followed:
Remove the ...
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How to replace Raid1 hard drives with large ones using Storcli tool
I have raid1 with 2 physical drives (SATA 3.637 TB).
I want to extend it's size with large ones without losing data.
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Recover data from broken RAID 1 drive
I need to save files from a Buffalo NAS Linkstation with two physical drives that is not working anymore (2TB each, Raid 1). Error message says:
The bad sectors in the hard drive may have reached a ...
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Very slow read/write on software raid1 with nvme device on Ubuntu focal
I have a server with Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS with NVME ssd devices running on raid1 and the hard drive operates so slow! to open a gzip file to of 500MB to a 3.7GB takes a while.. way more then it should. ...
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MDADM RAID-1 "not large enough to join array" on identical partition tables
I have two disks with identical partition tables (sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sudo sfdisk /dev/sdb) that mdadm refuses to merge as a RAID-1 array.
$ sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1
mdadm: /...
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Can I Move RAID-1 (Mirrored) Hard Drives From a Hardware Raid Controller to Software Raid?
Old server:
3ware 9650se PCIe hardware RAID controller with 2 sets of RAID-1 (4 total drives, 2 mirrored) with a 5th drive as a hot-spare.
New server:
Software RAID is the only option. Plan to run ...
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Troubleshooting frozen disk when queue is full
I have a system (centos 7.8) with k8s installed on top.
After a few days of normal operations (system load is ~30% and disk activity is around 60 iops, not saturated), the system goes to an unstable ...
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Using mdadm - RAID1 array doesn't mirror other disk
Currently I am building a nextcloud server on Ubuntu 20.04. I got one disk for the OS to run on a 320GB harddisk. And I want the data directory to be in a raid1 array, because if one drive fails we ...
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Recommended approach for booting from Linux software RAID for redundancy
I am looking for the recommended approach to setting up software RAID (using mdadm) on Centos 8 to provide redundancy.
In my setup I have 4 identical disks, but I assume the answer should also be ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 "Advanced Installation" official guide for RAID 1 installation appears broken for UEFI installation
I had no issues earlier with RAID 1 setup on Ubuntu 16.04. However, on 18.04 it has been a struggle. I finally located this guide.
I followed the guideline to the dot. However, I am unable to set the ...
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Can we move RAID configured disks across different Servers
I have 2 SSD disks configured as RAID 1 using RAID feature in BIOS. By chance if my motherboard and processor is damaged, can I connect these 2 SSD disks to another Server. Will these SSD disks boot ...
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What is more stressful for an SSD drive, a RAID-1 sync or multiple OS and software installations?
I was wondering recently, what is more stressful for an SSD drive in a RAID-1 array, a RAID sync or multiple installations of OSes and software.
Say for example that you have a new server with empty ...
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Can I perform a RAID-1 Setup on Linux over an existing disk one containing data?
I have the following setup on my Fileserver:
2 HDDs In intel RST RAID-1 containing Windows OS+DATA
And I want to migrate into the following configuration:
1 SSD containing CentOS 8
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Can I create a RAID-1 using Intel RTST on existing FIlesystem?
I am installing ubuntu on a fileserver having existing data.
The server has 2X4TB disks in RAID-1 configuration usint Intel RTST. And Because the one is failing (the RAID-1 is degraded) I disassembled ...
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Is my mdadm RAID1 running?
Sorry for the stupid question but I'm really confused.
Is my RAID1 running and in a good health?
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux ...
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Auto boot degraded RAID1 on Debian 10 (Buster)
I want my server to boot without manual intervention on degraded RAID1 from second drive on Debian 10 (Buster).
It boots when I detach the second hard disk but it doesn't boot when I detach the first ...
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mdadm raid1 with three disks where two disks would be a subset raid [closed]
I currently have two disk of the same size (4TB each) in raid1.
I'm wondering if it's now possible to add an additional disk of size 8TB and have it as raid 1 with the other two disks acting as raid ...
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When two different companies of hard disks can be raid together? [closed]
I'm trying to replace the hard disk due to the aging of the server computer. Currently, the server computer is composed of two 2tb hard disks as RAID 1. The model number of the hard disk is Seagate's ...
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Rebuild Linux Software Raid 10 Adding Replacement Disk
I have a CentOS 6.10 Server with 4 x 2TB Drives. One was failing (bad sectors and causing major disk IO bottlenecks). This is a headless server in a remote data center. Technician is going to replace ...
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Storcli - migrate from RAID1 to RAID10
I have a system with two hard drives set up in RAID1. I've purchased another two - same model/size etc. - and now I want to reconfigure them to RAID10.
I have storcli installed in VMWare and is ...
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Raid Status - Online vs Ready vs Foreign
What does Raid state Online, Ready or Foreign means? What other state can it be?
What needs to be done in such state? I think Online is the only safe state.
What are the DO's and Don't during ...
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What would you call this "RAID" ? RAID 1+6? [closed]
I have Snapraid running as snapshot RAID6 (2-parity disks) for my 9 disk array which calculates new parity once a day. Then I have Drivepool duplicating certain very important folders on the array to ...
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What a benefit of RAID 1,5,10 vs every night simple diff backup
Given: 2 HDD in RAID and case when we lose 1 of them after 3 years:
If we use RAID 0, we lost data
If we use RAID 1, we have a copy on possible also bad-health disk, any restore may cause failure ...
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Hardware Raid 1 vs Raid 10
What are the advantages/disadvantages of raid 1+0 vs raid 1 regarding the following:
Recoverability. How easy is it to recover data from a raid 1+0 array if the raid array controller fails and you ...
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Multiple RAIDS on same disks [closed]
On a server, I have 3 SATA disks.
I'd like to create a root partition in RAID 1 of 50GB and a data partition in RAID 5 with the remaining spaces on my disks.
There would be 2 different RAID types on ...
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Using raid-1 madm to shrink an existing 8TB EBS disk live. Possible ? Risks?
Initial situation
I have a 8 TB EBS drive on Amazon (ext4, directly mounted without partitions)
I didn't use sw-raid for ages, so my assumption might be wrong that I can shrink the disk that way.
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Unable to enable cache disk in Intel Rapid Storage Technology
Okay, this is driving nuts:
I have a Dell XPS 8910SE that was originally running Windows 10 Pro 1809. The OS disk was using Intel Rapid Storage Technology for a RAID1 array, and an m.2 SATA SSD as a ...
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RAID 1 Reliability: 4 drives vs 2 Drives + 2 Spare Drives
Which is likely to be more reliable (safer data + lower downtime):
having 4 drives in RAID 1
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having 2 drives in RAID 1 plus 2 spare(s)?
In other words, is there an advantage in having spares when ...
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RAID1 to store ~10 million files <3MB? [closed]
I have many small files in all of my websites, which are backed up every day to local computer. Today I use external 2TB HDD, but due to lack of free space wanna buy additional HDD. So my goal is not ...
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Recover data from RAID1 single disk only
root@rescue:~# fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 69632 102713344 102643713 49G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 102782976 467808255 365025280 174.1G ...
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If two members of a RAID 1 volume have inconsistent bits, how do most RAID controller handle this?
I am using VROC for CPU RAID with some NVMe drives. I have a RAID 1 array that seems to be having problems. Instead of boring you with the details, I have a more general question.
How does VROC (or ...
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How to add hot spare to software RAID1?
I have a CentOS 7 server. It is running a software RAID 1 mirroring three disks. I want to add a 4th disk to act as a hot spare. My intention is that in the event of a failure of one of the three ...
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Create RAID 5 with 2 new and 2 data disks without losing data [closed]
I would like to create a RAID 5 for my file storage. For that purpose, I currently use 2 drives without any RAID configuration. I would like to upgrade to a RAID 5. I want to add 2 new (and empty) ...