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RAID 5 via mdadm

Finally got the SATA PCI cards (SIIG SC-SA4011) in at work today so I was able to go ahead and build the new RAID array.
The first hurdle was to figure out what chipset the SATA cards use, but after removing the SIIG sticker I found a nice SiI 3114 chip which is well supported via [...]

mdadm RAID 1 Migration

I’m migrating our work server over to a complete RAID setup (software) and needed to find a way to migrate the system partitions over to RAID 1 with a minimum of hassle. I found this how-to and was able to follow most of it verbatim for my test run, but I thought I’d [...]