I’ve made myself a striped “kamikaze RAID” volume a couple of years ago for video editing. It’s worked great until recently, when performance degraded a bit and it was time to re-create it. Turns out I had forgotten how to set it up, and I had no clue how to delete it either. Just in … Read more
By default, mdadm performs an automatic integrity check of your RAID once a month (on or after the first Sunday to be precise). If you turn off the system prematurely though, the check will be aborted and started again the next month. If you ever need to start (or stop) a check manually, here are … Read more
In my previous article I’ve explained how to setup a software RAID with mdadm. This was a RAID 5 setup with 3 drives, and in this article we’ll take a look how to expand it with a 4th drive, increasing its overall size. Here’s what we’ll do in principle: Getting the new drive ready Let’s … Read more
In this article I’ll explain how to setup a software RAID on Fedora. This will turn any number of attached USB drives into any flavour of RAID without the necessity of a dedicated enclosure. I’m using this setup for internal office data storage with redundancy, together with a Samba share. This works on any Linux … Read more
It’s been over 10 years since I’ve played with performance or redundancy RAID setups. The advent of SSDs made most of the computers I’ve owned rather fast enough for what I’m doing. I’m editing more and more videos these days, my projects are getting more complex, and as such I thought something even faster than … Read more
