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Is it recommended to use software RAID-1 in a production environment? Due to budget constraints, I cannot get a hardware RAID controller for a new server.
While I'm aware of a slight performance decrease, is it really that much of a difference?
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I recently got a new laptop (Asus G73JH-A2) which has two identical hard drives in it. Unfortunately the motherboard does not have a RAID controller. What I would like to do is run the drives in a RAID-0 configuration to improve performance (plus get the extra capacity on one partition). I would…
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I have a CentOS setup with sw RAID5 that holds my data. Well, the server died, so I bought another box to migrate my drives to. Only thing is, I cannot get the RAID array rebuilt (not even sure it needs rebuilding, might just need the /dev/md0 mapping created... but I don't even know how to determine…
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Hello
I am trying to convert my single disk boot to a raid1 boot
So far here is what i have:
I sucessfully create the raid 1 as degraded with the new drive alone, I copied all the data on it
I can mount that raid 1, see its files etc
I already have a raid5 that is working on the same box (although…
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Hi,
I am installing an Intel Xserve (Quad core Xeon) with Snow Leopard Server (10.6) on two 80Gb 7200rpm SATA HDs.
I created a mirrored RAID set using Disk Utility with those two drives, all went fine.
I was then asking myself if this is really a good idea. I know that an hardware RAID system would…
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