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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

Minimum disks needed for RAID 10 is 4.

When using RAID 10, 2 RAID 1 volumes are created and then these 2 volumes are put in RAID 0 mode.

Do not confuse this with RAID 01, which creates 2 RAID 0 volumes and then mirrors them. RAID10 layout

Linux MD RAID10 is a non-standard level that can permits setting up unusual layouts beyond what is possible with the standard RAID10. MD RAID10 requires a minimum of only two drives.

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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 connectors SAS-A & SAS-B map to physical disk slots…
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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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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 and all the applications?
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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 terastation ?
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Device in software RAID 10 array: clean, degraded. Ouch?

I've got 4x 500GB drives in software RAID. /dev/md0 is RAID 1 and mounted to /boot /dev/md1 is RAID 10 and is swap /dev/md2 is RAID 10 and is the main system and data device I looked at mdadm this evening and noticed on md2... State : clean,…
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Raid 10 - Very slow

I have Software Raid 10 setup, it has been working great a few months. When I did a quick HD speed test: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync It is taking forever and I had to terminate it, the result was: 1073741824 bytes (1.1…
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How to re-add a RAID-10 failed drive on Ubuntu?

I have a problem that I can't seem to solve. We have a Ubuntu server setup with RAID-10 and two of the drives dropped out of the array. When I try to re-add them using the following command: mdadm --manage --re-add /dev/md2 /dev/sdc1 I get the…
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RAID 10 -- still a little unclear on the concept

Possible Duplicate: What are the different widely used RAID levels and when should I consider them? I haven't had any trouble building mental images of the simpler RAID forms, but for some reason my head spins when I try to think about 10. Let…
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Maxed out disk space on RAID10. Thoughts on moving forward?

I have (4) 146GB HDD set to a RAID10 on one server. I have now run out of disk space and I would like to increase it, however, I do not have any available slots to install more HDD's and no available PCI slots to install a SATA card. My question is,…
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Which RAID/LVM configuration for new 2x8TB file server is safest?

I just built a totally new PC to be a fileserver. It has one 60gb SSD for OS (ubuntu 12.04), and 8 2tb data drives in it. I am looking for the safest, most stable way to set up a single giant storage pool with redundancy. Considerations: My TOP…
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How to rebuild my NAS

Today I have a QNAP TS-859U+ with 8 X 2TB disks in it. As it's was setup on day-1 it uses a single volume on a raid 5. The volume has currently a mixture of: 2 shared folders 5 iScsi Targets - of which 1 is a 1TB datastore to a VMware ESXi5 3…
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Installing Solaris 10 on sunT5220 - ZFS/UFS raid 10?

I am in a bit of a time crunch, and need to get two T5220's built. We were very happy to see two boxes in our aged inventory which had 8 HDD's each, but didn't think to check if they were running hardware RAID or not. Turns out that they aren't.…
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Can't re-mount existing RAID10 on Ubuntu

I saw similar questions, but didn't find what solution to my problem. After power-cut, one of RAID10 (4 disks were) appears to be malfunctioning. I make tha array active one, but can not mount it. Always the same error: mount: you must specify the…
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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 exact same environment (OS, cpu, ram, raid…
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Server Config Software Raid Slow Read

I have 6x WD Caviar Black 1,5 TB in Software RAID 10 / 1 / 0 (Centos 6.2 / mdadm) cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid10] [raid0] [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdf2[5] sda2[0] sdb2[1] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sde2[4] 1023988 blocks super 1.0 [6/6]…
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