Re: [PLUG] RAID-1 mdadm vs. Mobo H/W = moot

[Keith via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 7/20/20 2:47 AM, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> On 7/16/20 9:21 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> > I'm building 2 new PCs and I am wondering about RAID-1.  I've been 
> > using mdadm RAID-1 for at least a decade with excellent results.  But 
> > I haven't had to deal with (U)EFI up to now, and that's a mess, along 
> > with the fact that the Linux Mint/Ubuntu `Ubiquity` installer doesn't 
> > do RAID.  :-(
> >
> > I only care about RAID-1 (mirror) and Linux.  I would not even 
> > consider Mobo RAID anymore more complicated than a mirror, but since 
> > a mirror is *so* simple...
> <snip>
>
> The short version is, the Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 
> motherboard [0] is *not* capable of using both M2 slots if you are 
> *also* using the Radeon Vega Graphics processor [1]! :-(
>
> So we fell back to plan-b which is to install some old HDD drives I 
> had laying around and I'll get around to writing some kind of `rsync` 
> script (after I take a look at Brent's code).
>
> Thanks for the thoughts, I was reasonably certain about not doing the 
> hardware RAID, and that was certainly confirmed!
>
> I will look into getting my code up to my Github page one of these 
> weeks, there are actually some good details in there.
>
>
> Specific replies:
>
> Keith, I think we've talked about this before, but I still don't see 
> where LVM does RAID.  Maybe PLUG needs a talk?
You and I are working on similar things apparently.  I'm upgrading one 
of my office workstations (to a Ryzen 9 system, yey!) as part of my 
LizardFS network expansion.  As a consequence of that, I'm going to 
upgrade my personal storage to a 10Tb mirror.  When I set that up I will 
do a post here on the steps I took to create an encrypted RAID-1 and how 
I use it for my backups.  Its a handful of steps- at most a 5 to 10 
minute lightening talk (which I would be open to doing if still needed 
after my post- just not sure when I'll be able to do it at PLUG).

I'm draining the 10Tb drives now so I'll do that post later this week.

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