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Posts tagged softraid
My adventure installing Linux on softRAID0/1 (part 2)
Sep 4th
This is a continuation of Part 1.
After fiddling with Ubuntu and my RAID setup for a while, I got to thinking. After every upgrade I would run into this same issue, and would have to re-do the array create/build/assembly process while making sure the kernel was placed properly, as well as the initramfs.
So… combining that realization with my positive experience with Arch Linux, I decided to give up on Ubuntu and proceed forward using Arch. I have had no problems thus far with running Arch on my laptop, but on my desktop I will be much more focused on stability, rather than latest-and-greatest. More >
My adventure installing Ubuntu 9.04 on softRAID0/1 (part 1)
Sep 3rd
So yesterday I got a couple of new HDD’s: WD black 640 GB 3.5″ drives, so I figured I would do something I had wanted to do for a while: give my primary desktop a RAID setup. I’ve gotten tired of backing up pictures and other important information (…but mostly pictures), and it would make my life easier to have a RAID1 array.
However, I do not have a hardware RAID, or anything of that nature. So after doing some searching, I came up with these links:

