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How To Configure RAID Arrays on Ubuntu

How To Configure RAID Arrays on Ubuntu

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By Justin Ellingwood, Madison Scott-Clary and Kong Yang

Introduction

RAID allows you to manage separate storage drives as a unified device with better performance or redundancy properties. In this series, we’ll walk through RAID concepts and terminology, create software RAID arrays using Linux’s mdadm utility, and learn how to manage and administer arrays to keep your storage infrastructure running smoothly.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

An Introduction to RAID Terminology and Concepts

August 17, 2016
14 min read

Tutorial

How To Create RAID Arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu

October 21, 2022
21 min read

Tutorial

How To Manage RAID Arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu 22.04

October 21, 2022
16 min read

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