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RAID stands for redundant array of independent disks, and allows for disks to be linked in various ways. Common RAID setups in Ubuntu are a hardware RAID, FakeRAID and software RAID.

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Very fresh Linux Noob and I have a question before switching to Ubuntu. I have a system that currently runs Windows 11 with an M.2 as the boot drive and 3 HDD's set up in RAID 5. I would like the M.2 ...
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I was transferring some files from a windows PC to my mdadm RAID10 NAS on raspi through ethernet. Was getting tired of slow transfer speeds and hence turned off my rpi and connected the drive setup ...
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I just bought a new Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (2025) laptop with Windows 11 installed. When I am loading from an Ubuntu USB stick (I tried both Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04), the system does not detect the SSD ...
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My NAS Synology DS720+ was broken and the NAS was set RAID1. How can I recover all data from hard disk? I tried to plug hard disk with external hard disk bay and connect to Ubuntu OS via USB cable. ...
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We need to create RAID1 on a server that will have ubuntu 24.04 Desktop version. The disks should be encrypted. After some searching we noticed that there is not an exactly tutorial for this. The ...
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I just tried to install Xubuntu 24.04.3 on a new bare metal workstation build. I discovered through another query (see link below) that it now uses the ubuntu-desktop-installer which apparently has ...
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Trying to setup a fresh ubuntu system: Have 2 240gb drives in HARDWARE RAID 1 Have setup a ventoy drive with Ubuntu images on. • Started with trying to installing UBUNTU 24.04 desktop - Failed (does ...
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I ran the command mdadm --grow /dev/md6 --level=6 --raid-devices=12 --backup-file=/var/mdadm_backups/md6_20251014_185747 Which was to convert my RAID 5 to RAID 6, then I had a sudden power loss. I ...
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I just assembled a new machine and wanted to install Xubuntu 24.04.3 directly on a pair of mirrored 4TB SSDs. I had read a number good articles on doing this with 24.04 and was ready to go. However, ...
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We are using a DELL Precision 7960 Tower workstation in our lab, which came with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installed. Now I want to upgrade to 24.04. Our workstation has a RAID 10 mount point only for storage. ...
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I will be installing Xubuntu 24.04.3 on a newly built system having two 4TB Samsung M.2 SSDs which will be mirrored using RAID-1. My question is what is the better way to set up the mirror. I'll be ...
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from a previous openSUSE installation, I have a Soft-RAID 1, with an unencrypted EFI-partition, an unencrypted boot-partition and an encrypted partition with LVM for root, home, swap and tmp. Now, I ...
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I have a RAID-5 array spanning 4 x 10 TB disks with 2 volumes with encryption - pulled from a failed Synology NAS. I have attached the 4 drives to a Ubuntu desktop and now have them loading on boot. ...
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I am struggling to get the proper configuration to get the disk speeds for some NVMe drives for sequential read/write tests. I have two T500 m.2 Gen5 drives (reads/writes up to 14,500/12,700MB/s) set ...
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I am using Ubuntu 25.04 on a SSD using only a part of it and two HDDs as RAID0 using mdadm. I want to format my computer so the linux home partition uses the whole SSD and not just one part (I don't ...
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