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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storcli cannot add diks to RAID10 - 255 Start Migrate not possible

list of Disks: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp…
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Is it best to have the OS on a separate virtual disk?

I have a server with 8 drive bays, and I have eight 4TB drives. Would it be best to do one RAID10 with all drives, or one RAID1 with two drives and then a RAID10 with the remaining six so that the operating system (Windows Server) has its own drive…
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Remove Missing Drives from ZFS Pool

After an embarrassing session trying to replace a disk in my ZFS pool, I have a bunch of entries representing disks that are no longer present in the system: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM data …
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FAILED md RAID10, confusing output

I'm testing a RAID10 array here with mdadm. I wanted to see how many failed devices it could tolerate, rebuild times, etc. At one point I had it doing a resync on 5 or 6 devices, then I rebooted it, Now it is showing inactive and I'm not sure what…
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Raid 10 Centos 7 failure after power cut suddenly

I have 1 server that using RAID 10 software. However, after recent power failure the server no longer can boot and stuck at grub rescue. Using ls command for all device n the server does not detect the content thus cannot reinstall grub. Using…
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Raid-10 mdadm - How to Manually Configure Mirrored Drive Order?

How do I configure a new mdadm software RAID-10 to use a specific order for its drive mirroring? Say I have 4 hard drives: A, B, C, and D. For my own reliability and performance reasons, I want drive A to be a mirror of drive C, and drive B to be a…
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After Reboot Ubuntu 20.04 - RAID10 goes INACTIVE

I installed RAID 10 on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 By the Following commands: 1. mdadm --examine /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf sudo parted /dev/sdc mklabel gpt sudo parted /dev/sdd mklabel gpt sudo parted /dev/sde mklabel gpt sudo parted /dev/sdf…
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Increase space by growing mdadm RAID10 from 4 to 6 (and more)

I'm running Centos 7.8 with mdadm v4.1 I have 4 NVMe (3.2TB each) configured in a RAID 10, so 50% usable space (6.4TB): Personalities : [raid10] md0 : active raid10 nvme5n1p16 nvme4n1p15 nvme0n1p1[4] nvme3n1p1[3] nvme2n1p1[2] nvme1n1p11 6250967040…
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mdadm RAID 10 filesystem corruption -- recoverable?

PROBLEM: I had a degraded disk in my RAID 10 array which I created using mdadm. I first removed the disk, replaced it with a new one, but when I rebuilt, I got an error saying it couldn't detect the file system of the disk. I realized with fdisk…
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LSI HostRAID 2008 - Can't Create RAID 10 With More Than 10 Drives

I've got a Quanta Stratos server with an LSI HostRaid 2008 controller. I've got 24 SAS drives in it. No matter what I do I cannot get configure RAID 10 across all 24 drives. I've no experience with LSI controllers, I've only ever used PERC and I've…
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Very Low IOPs on Array of 16x 15K SAS Drives

I'm having issues with one of our servers that is running 16x 900GB 15K SAS drives in a RAID 1+0 Array on a PERC H710P, under normal load its doing ~450 IOPs (almost all writes) and has a backlog of ~80ms, when testing the speed with dd if=/dev/zero…
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Storcli - migrate from RAID1 to RAID10

I have a system with two hard drives set up in RAID1. I've purchased another two - same model/size etc. - and now I want to reconfigure them to RAID10. I have storcli installed in VMWare and is working, but I can't find anything about converting to…
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RAID - What happens if I import foreign configuration from newly inserted disk into an exisitng raid

Does the existing RAID fail if I import the foreign configuration from newly insert disk? Say I have a RAID 10 with 4 drives and I insert the 5th drive and its in Foreign state. Does it destroy my working RAID if I import foreign configuration? What…
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Raid Status - Online vs Ready vs Foreign

What does Raid state Online, Ready or Foreign means? What other state can it be? What needs to be done in such state? I think Online is the only safe state. What are the DO's and Don't during clearing its state or replacing drives (or when should we…
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What a benefit of RAID 1,5,10 vs every night simple diff backup

Given: 2 HDD in RAID and case when we lose 1 of them after 3 years: If we use RAID 0, we lost data If we use RAID 1, we have a copy on possible also bad-health disk, any restore may cause failure also If we use RAID 5, same as RAID 1, but we can…
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