RAID6 is a method of configuring fault-tolerant hard drive storage. It is similar to RAID5, but differs in that it writes two sets of parity information, thus can survive the simultaneous failure of two hard drives.
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3ware 9650SE-24M8 INOPERABLE data recovery
I have a raid6 array with 16 hdds. Two harddrives had failed (device error), but when I went to replace them, I pulled out one wrong disk!
Now the raid array is INOPERABLE. Is there any way to recover the data? I don't care about the last 10 seconds…
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16 drive RAID recommendation on H730P
I have a machine with 16 x 12 TB drives on an H730P controller. What would be the recommended RAID-6 configuration? The drives are of the model Toshiba MG07SCA12TEY
I am considering 2x 8 drive arrays, 1x 16 drive RAID-60 array and 1x 16 drive RAID-6…
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High IO latency on ESXi 4.1 on HP DL580 G7
at my Company we were experiencing some weird spikes on IO latency on one of our ESXi instances.
we've spend 24h figuring out whats wrong and no clue so far.
after giving up we put all the disks into a different server (HP DL380 G7) with much less…
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I accidently deleted the partition tables of my RAID6 drives
I accidentally deleted the partition table of 2 drives in my 4 drive RAID6 by reversing the order of sudo sgdisk -R=/dev/sdb /dev/sdz
parted /dev/sdb print currently reports:
Model: ATA ST2000DM008-2FR1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB
Sector size…
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Hardware Acceleration for MD RAID?
Is it possible, or feasible, or even sensible to consider hardware acceleration for MD RAID?
I am referring more here to RAID6 type levels where there is a computation overhead. My thinking is that it is still disks that will provide the greater…
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