I want to set up RAID 1 (mirroring) on an LSI MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 (1078 chipset) with a 4k sector (advanced format) drive. As far as I know, the controller does not 4k sector drives are official
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Server RAID is dead. How will you recover data from its drive?
We currently have 9 machines. One of them has an electrical fault and blows up the circuit board, but the drive seems to be okay. I’m not entirely sure that I will even try to recover data from it.
Hard Drive – How to measure disk speed and fast speed? How long does it take for a copy of 1500 GB?
How to measure disk speed? Does it read Mbit or Mbyte per second? What is today’s average, what is fast, and what is fast industry?
Let us say that some people say that it takes a long time t
Is the hard drive – whether the SSD driver benefits from non-default allocation unit size?
The recommended default allocation unit size when formatting the drive in the current settings is 4096 bytes. I understand the basics of the advantages and disadvantages of larger and smaller sizes
Virtualization – ESXi 4.1 is located on a separate RAID 10 logical drive or RAID 10 single logical drive
When dealing with ESXi, a lot of answers have been viewed around different RAID configurations and best methods. However, I still have some unanswered questions.
There are 8x 300GB 10K SAS dr
Storage – What is the maximum drive size compatible with the H700 RAID controller of Dell Server?
I want to fill 12 6 TB drives on my R510 server. I know that the latest firmware of the H700 controller supports more than 2 TB. However, there is no clear document stating that the maximum disk si
How long does it take to rebuild a drive in RAID 6?
I am building a 7-disk RAID 6 array on a DELL MD3000 DAS box. My first task is storage space, so I want to use a 2TB drive – but I am worried about how long it will take to rebuild a failed disk Ti
Synchronize SSD to the spindle drive using RAID or DRBD
I am setting up a server and SSD as the main drive, and want to copy data to a cheaper drive as a block-level backup (e.g. RAID1).
But I want to know if anyone has tried this Things and wheth
RAID – Smart Array P400 Drive Fault
I have an HP Proliant server with a Smart Array P400 RAID controller, equipped with two 146 gb 10k SAS hard drives, configured as a mirrored RAID configuration. Where can I find out about How does
HP ProLiant G6 Report SSD Drive Failed – Monitoring Alternative Policy?
I want to get your feedback on a controversial situation I discovered a few days ago. My task is to use HP Proliant G6 for development, using 2 new ( Samsung SSD 840 PRO series
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