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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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Megaraid storage manager. How to add drive in RAID 0 with OS

I have a LSI megaraid sas 9271-8i controller and 8 physical drive. I have error on Slot 0. Media count error: 1568 and Pred fail error: 12. And I have error such as: How can I check a partition of physical disk in MegaRaid Storage Managment? I think…
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Difference between software and hardware RAID 10 if the server suddenly shut down

today I have a question that I can not answer. Our servers are dual power and battery. The operating system never crashes. (thanks linux) Now, I wonder what happens if the server suddenly shuts down? (motherboard, processor?) In this case, if I want…
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Is it possible to run 2 arrays of RAID 1 on the same server (HP XW6600)

We are running our datacenter with one array of RAID 1 (with 2 x 2TB) on a HP XW6600 (CentOS 7). We'd like to increase disk space and avoid as much as possible downtime while upgrading. There are currently several solutions: Switch from RAID 1 to…
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How many drives can fail in an Xserve RAID in RAID 0+1?

I’m torn between what I know (or think I do) and what Apple’s documentation states. The hypothetical setup I’m considering is what is described as RAID 0+1 in Apple’s documentation for the Xserve RAID, which usually means a mirror of two striped…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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