RAID solution with hardware assistance. RAID parity calculations can be performed by either the main CPU, or by a separate processor on the RAID controller card.
Questions tagged [hardware-raid]
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Virtual Disk 00 Shows Degraded for PowerEdgeR710: Does my Disk where okay?
My Virtual Disk State shows me Degraded and once i double click both the disk seems to me fine
Moreover, under Connector 0 my physical disk 0.0.0 showing Forign State.
I am new to this and can someone tell me whats going with my disk
Thank you
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Bodhi
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Server still Beeping even after adding New HDD
Here is the case
A week ago SuperMicro Server started beeping due to one HDD failure which is part of Raid, This server has Physical Raid Controller .. Now i replaced the faulty HDD with New HDD and now new HDD is blinking with both Blue LED and Red…
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Which raid array will be best practices with seven 1.2 tb hdd system
I have a server which have seven 1.2 tb hard disks. I have to create raid array but i don't decide which raid i use?
First of all, first and most important matter is security. At any cost i must not to lose data. So, i think raid 6 and one hot…
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cem
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Are there any two-bay hardware bit/block level replication devices (perhaps RAID-1)?
Here's what I'm hoping to do:
Have two drives in a hardware bay that can be pulled from the front without dissassembly
Read and write to it as a single (NTFS) disk
Be able to pull either drive and plug it into any windows machine as a NTFS disk…
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Ubuntu Server 14.04 TLS plus Hardware RAID
I have just completed hadrware installation of my new RAID server which will run with Ubuntu Server OS. I have installed Ubuntu Server OS and everything run seemingly without problems.
However, I have few questions, I can not find answer to…
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Bunkai.Satori
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LSI MegaRAID 9240-4i & RAID1 (mirroring) on ZFS filesystem
Exist any incompatibility between an existing virtual drive created on LSI MegaRAID 9240-4i SAS/SATA Controller with RAID1 and the ZFS filesystem?
I tried to make mirror(2xSATA HDD 300Gb) on freebsd 10.1 release but don't worked. Detected…
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S3th76
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How to test is hardware ssd-cache work?
We have server with hardware raid controller (Adaptec ASR71605Q).
It has 10 sas HDD, 2 SSD for cache and 1gb onboard cache ram.
On server installed ESXi. On ESXi I'm start Linux, create 2Tb disk for tests.
And now i need to test and ensure, that…
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easy_john
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What if Areca 1212 Raid card fails?
So I have a basic server: i5, 4GB ram, Areca 1212 Raid card, 1x sata 40GB HDD (for OS) connected to motherboard sata, 4x 2TB HDDs all configured into RAID5 (for /home data) connected to Areca Raid card. OS is Linux Centos 6.4. I think this is all…
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Florian Mertens
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Raid 0+1 vs raid 1 and disk span in windows server 2012
What is the difference between hardware raid 0+1 and 2 or more RAID 0 with disk span?
what are the differences: advantages and disadvantages?
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user2119955
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IBM xSeries 226 RAID and windows server 2003 setup
I have an IBM xSeries 226 server and I am trying to set up windows 2003 from its original cd. servers specifications are 1 cpu 4 Gb ram 72X3 scsi disks.
I dont know anything about servers this is my first try. I have some cd's like ServeRaid 7.10b…
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which raid controller is better, Intel Z68 MotherBoard buildin or Dell PERC5i?
I have two options to implement raid5 in the server, 6 SATA 2T disks is expected.
option1: New Motherboard using Intel Z68 chipset, support 6 SATA disks total and raid 0,1,5 etc.
option2: Used Dell Raid card, like PERC5i.
their cost are almost…
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brike
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Software RAID vs Hardware RAID
I need more info about RAID. I have a 1U server from Dell R210 with an onboard RAID controller, which I am not able to get to work with Ubuntu install, so I setup a software RAID on Ubuntu.
My question is now, what can I do? Right now I am testing…
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Paris Nakita Kejser
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What is standard I/O for Disc
I have raid5 and 6 HD one HD size is 1TB. In the Nagios monitoring most of the time we saw error for Disc IO usage critical we set 3000 as a warning and 3500 as a critical error in nagios plug-in for this Disc IO usage. Can anyone help our what is…
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Badal Singh Dudy
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Is it possible to have multiple storage servers in a failover cluster?
I'm familiar with setting up RAID arrays and am running a few in my home environment.
I was wondering if it's possible to have multiple storage servers in a failover configuration.
What I hope to achieve with this is to have a certain redundancy…
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Mephy
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3ware 9650se not recognizing SAS drives, what else should I check?
The card works fine with SATA Raptors but can't see 2 different models of Cheetah. Drives are fine and have standard fw - visible with LSI 3081ER.
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dragonsen
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