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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.

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RAID Controller / RAID Array question

I have a question about my RAID controller. It's an Adaptec 2010s (onboard). I have 3 machines, all the same hardware. One is running, the others are down. If I pull my 4 SCSI hard disks out of the machine and I put them in the other machine will it…
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HP Proliant DL320 G5 Raid Advice

So I just acquired this HP Proliant DL320 G5 Server with two 160GB drives setup in a Raid 1 array. I'm planning sticking this in a colo and installing Proxmox (openvz server) and running two debian-based webservers (django + apache + nginx) on them.…
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RAID 10 Setup showing 2 drives

I have a RAID 10 (0+1) setup among 4 drives and I'm installing my OS and it's showing 2 drives. My understanding of this structure as outlined here: RAID 1+0 vs RAID 0+1 is that I should only be seeing a single drive. I'm hesitant to install the…
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Split RAID array at controller, or at LVM?

I have a CentOS box with 10 2TB drives & an LSI RAID controller, used as an NFS server. I know I'm going to use RAID 1 to create 5TB of usable space. But in terms of performance, reliability & management, which is better, create a single 5TB array…
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perc 6/i monitoring with megacli on non dell mobo

I currently have a perc 6/i sitting in my GA-G41M-ES2L running ubuntu server 10.04. While I am able to use my array, and everything works fine, I am unable to use megacli to get monitoring output. I've tried CentOS and openSUSE and nothing works. I…
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RAID Spare Drive on ProLiant G6 Server

I have a question about the Spare Drive on an HP ProLiant Raid Disk Array. Does the Spare Drive have to be greater or equal the size of the largest RAID drive? For example (is this configuration possible?): Drive Bay 1 = 600 GB = RAID 5 Drive Bay 2…
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Raid backup replacement for IBM x3250 M2 (4194 K1G)

I have an x3250 M2 4194 K1G with an LSI Logic 1064e SAS/SATA controller on board. System setup with RAID 1 and going good. In case it going bad and controller will destroy itself to liberate planet from invaders i need to plan hardware replacement.…
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Convert an old PC to Ubuntu File Server

I have an old PC (P-III 550Mhz, 512MB RAM) which has reliably served as my local development server for years. I now want give it this box additional role of a file server for network backups, by using RAID 1 with two 2TB SATA Hard Drives for…
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How long to install a new RAID 1 pair in linux using hardware RAID?

I need to install a pair of 1Tb disks into a server that has a hardware RAID card. How long is it likely to take to configure the RAID controller - sticking the disks in is only a 5 minute job, but is there likely to be significant downtime while…
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Optimal Configuration for five 300 GB 15K SAS Drives

I recently acquired an HP Z800 workstation that has five 300 GB 15K SAS Drives. This system will be dedicated to running multiple virtual machines under VMware Workstation (Note: I'm not using ESXi because I do plan to use the system for other…
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VMWare Workstation Dev Machine Disks: one fast or four echofriendly raid?

I'm building a new dev computer. It will be running a few VMWare Worksation virtual machines - A dev machine running VS-2010, a build machine, a version-control machine, a web server for testing, a "personal" machine running office etc. I'll be…
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Zero-channel RAID for High Performance MySQL Server (IBM ServeRAID 8k) : Any Experience/Recommendation?

We are getting this IBM rack mount server and it has this IBM ServeRAID8k storage controller with Zero-Channel RAID and 256MB battery backed cache. It can support RAID 10 which we need for our high performance MySQL server which will have 4 x 15000K…
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What RAID controller for ESXi 4 on Optiplex 330

What HW RAID controller to use with Dell Optiplex 330 running vmware esxi 4? I found e.g Adaptec RAID 2405 is ESXi 4 compatible but I'm not sure whether it will work in PCIe 16x slot as I red sometimes desktop PCIe are "graphic card only". Thanks
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re: 3ware raid 10 (4drive) suggested stripe size suggestions?

looked around on the site but nothing really concrete on my question. i will have about 120GB of data total, files are made up of 5MB files, excel, word and about 25 .pst files that are about 1.2GB each. Yes they use .pst over network, even though…
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Bad performance with HP P840 and P440ar and consumer SSD in Raid 10 or consumer HDD in Raid 5

i know that my setup isn't supported officially by this kind of hardware, but still i am really astonished how bad it behaves. i am running a ML350 Gen9 with 128GB of RAM, dual Xeon E5-2630 V3 on which i am using the P440ar to run 8 SSDs Crucial…
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