Questions tagged [raid10]

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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RAID 1+0 redundancy and data-loss recovery capability against RAID 1

I have a HP ProLiant server with two SCSI drives. I wanted to set up a RAID 1 array but the RAID configurator only allowed me a RAID 0 or a RAID 1+0 array. When either of my drive fails can I recover the data upon RAID 1+0 configuration?
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SQL Server: One 12-drive RAID-10 array or 2 arrays of 8-drives and 4-drives

Setting up a box for SQL Server 2008, which would give the best performance (heavy OLTP)? The more drives in a RAID-10 array the better performance, but will losing 4 drives to dedicate them to the transaction logs give us more…
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Hard Drive chugging noise when moutning Logical Volume to file system

I have a server (Ubuntu 11.04) with a RAID 10 array (4 disks), and the RAID 10 array is partitioned as one big LVM. I have a logical volume on that which is 40GB that holds the root file system. The other LVs are for virtual machine disks.…
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How to (hardware) RAID 10 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with 4 drives and motherboard with RAID contoller

I have 4 500GB hard drives. I set up a RAID 10 in BIOS, much like shown here: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/RAID_SATA_ESB2.pdf Then I followed these…
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RAID Planning for server

I'm trying to do some RAID planning, and the only RAID systems I've worked with in RAID-1. I'm going to be setting up a RAID-10 server. Could it make sense to have the primary hard drive with a 150GB Velo. Raptor 10K Disk, with the others in the…
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Switching from Raid1 to Raid10

we are running a Dell Server with a PERC5i Raid card using a Raid1 setup. Now we are hitting a performance problem with our harddrive performance and think about switching to Raid10. Which steps are necessary when switching from Raid1 to Raid10? Can…
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RAID 10, how layout works?

Possible Duplicate: Can someone explain the physical architecture of RAID 10 in complete layman's terms? I'm trying to figure out how exactly works the RAID 10 in linux with mdadm. I want to create a RAID 10 out of 4 partitions, let's say a, b, c…
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RAID 10 software from the install with Centos 5.5

I'm downloading right now the Centos 5 DVD. Is there any way to install it on 4 HDs (2Tb)? Thank you a lot!
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Mirrored and stripped HD drives in Raid10

I have ubuntu server 10.04 installed on a Raid10 array (MD) using 4 HD drives. As it is known, Raid10 is Raid 1 + Raid 0. So, two HD drives are stripped and they are mirrored (or the other way around). Is there an easy way to figure out which two of…
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How can I recover data from two good disks in a RAID 10?

I have a Lacie Ethernet RAID disk NAS box. I configured the 4 disks in a RAID 10 config. The Lacie unit will not let me make CIFS connections to the box stating "Shared Folders: Not Ready" but I can see that the data is still there. I have done…
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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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raid10 bad superblock after EXT4-fs error IO failure

I have a RAID10, which recently caused the following related errors. First thing I realised was that mount points of the raid were 100% full or not accessible. After doing a reboot, the machine didn't get on again. Dec 14 08:27:10 kernel:…
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Growing a RAID-10 on Synology NAS?

I was hoping to add two additional disks to my Synology NAS. Currently it is configured as a four disk RAID-10, no SHR, BTRFS, single volume system. Unfortunately extending a RAID-10 is not possible via GUI but it is possible according to the…
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How to remove a Raid 1 subgroup from a Raid 10 array?

I have a RAID 10 array with 3 subgroups of drives in RAID 1, like in the image below Raid 10 Is it possible to remove an entire subgroup (2 disks) without losing the entire Array? The RAID 10 will work normally with only 4 disks? If it is possible,…
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40Gbit/s RAID10 - on a single raid adapter is it possible?

I need an ultrafast backups restore for my solution. I am going to use two hosts: operating server and backup server. Both servers will be connected directly via 40Gbe PCIe 4.0 8x ethernet adapters so that they can implement max bandwidth. For…
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