Questions tagged [raid]
Redundant Array of Independent Disks, a scheme to utilize multiple hard drives to increase speed and reliability or to provide for data recovery in the event of hard drive failure
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How would I architecture Network Attached Storage?
This is a sequel (1, 2) question.
I'm interested in setting up a home networking solution. One or more individuals would be able to access their accounts from any one of multiple Macs around the ...
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Terminal command to force-install Mac OS High Sierra onto a specified drive?
I'm wondering if there is a way to install Mac OS High Sierra using terminal onto a specified drive?
I'm working with a bit of a unique situation as I've been running Mac OS Sierra successfully in a ...
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Why doesn't FileVault work on a RAID volume?
At work, I said to my colleague that it was not possible to enable Filevault on a RAID volume. He was surprised and asked me the technical reason.
So I would like to know. It's strange because ...
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Replace a failed disk in a Disk Utility RAID 1
I have LaCie 2big thunderbolt 2-disk device configured as a RAID1 from Disk Utility. One of the drives appears as "failed", so I unmounted the raid, replaced the drive and plugged it all back in.
Now ...
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APFS on RAID: recommended course of action?
I recently upgraded my Mac Mini Server's dual SSDs and found myself needing to re-create the RAID-0 array from scratch. (I am running the mainline High Sierra 10.13.1 on a 6,2 MacMiniServer from 2012.)...
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Which SSD Thunderbolt Product For Main Boot Drive for my iMac?
So I have a 2012 iMac. I got the base model 21.5" which means I have a painfully slow 5400 RPM hard drive. The pure SSD option would have cost $1,300 ($1 more than the $1,299 base price) if I could ...
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How do I remove everything Parallels?
Background: Mac Pro 4.1 circa 2009, specs:
OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.3 (just updated last weekend)
SN - H09440CK20H
2 - 2.93 GHz Quad-core Intel Xenon processors
32 GB RAM
2 - 1 TB HD
1 - ...
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How to convert an exiting partition to RAID on OS X?
I just replaced my optic drive from MacBook Pro with another 500gb HDD and I want to speedup one of the partitions.
The first drive has two partitions, named 106 and 107 and I want to convert one of ...
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RAID storage drive failed - what to do?
I have a macOS Server setup which is connected to two RAID (0, I think) systems. One of them does not work anymore.
Disk Utility shows that one drive is missing/damaged. It is not missing, thus it ...
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OSX partitions wiped by NAS RAID
So I messed up when I thought it would be a good idea to stick some hard drives into my NAS. It's now changed the partition table to a RAID0 one and my data has vanished. What are my best chances of ...
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Cannot boot Mac Mini with striped RAID 0 set
Today we could not get one of our machines running with 10.9 and RAID 0 which stripes the data on the boot volume.
After several hours of doing the 'standard' tasks like fixing permissions etc, we've ...
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Apple Software RAID: Add disk to array online
I recently purchased a WD Thunderbolt Duo, which has two 4 TB drive, now running in RAID 0 with Apple Software RAID.
My question is simple, if I am to get another Thunderbolt Duo next year, is it ...
