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Why is RAID 1 considered bad for backup?

There are so many articles slamming RAID (and therefore RAID 1) as being bad backup solutions: example 1 example 2 example 3 I understand …

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How do I monitor the status of a RAID array on an Intel controller from a Windows application?

I need to check the status of a RAID array on an Intel controller from my Windows application periodically (or …

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Can I recover a ZFS pool if the OS HDD died without exporting ZFS?

Unfortunately my main OS HDD died. I had a 4TB ZFS pool configured over 3 drives, as below: 120GB HDD - …

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Why is RAID not recommended for Hadoop HDFS setups?

Various websites (like Hortonworks) recommend to not configure RAID for HDFS setups mainly because of two reasons: Speed limited to …

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Adding a new device to a btrfs volume, but the available size is hardly growing

I have a btrfs volume which already consists of two different devices and which is mounted on /samples. Its total …

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Improve write speed for high speed file copy?

I've been trying to find out the fastest way to code a file copy routine to copy a large file …

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MDADM Pause Raid Resync To Enable Bitmapping

I have a 3x3TB Raid which has decided to start a Resync on the day I planned to grow …

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