Monthly Archives: January 2022

Hot-Swap with Intel RAID (Rapid Storage Technology – RST/RSTe)

It is 100% possible to hot-swap with Intel RAID when it is enabled and configure with an array of drives. As in, just pull the drive and put a new drive in while the OS is still running. There is … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Hot-Swap MDADM Array and Extend/Grow

Step-by-step guide Mark the drive as failed 1$ sudo mdadm –manage /dev/md0 –fail /dev/sdb1 Remove the drive from the array 1$ sudo mdadm –manage /dev/md0 –remove /dev/sdb1 View the mdadm status 1$ cat /proc/mdstat If you prefer to shut down … Continue reading

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