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Replacing a failing SnapRAID parity drive on my Ubuntu Home Server

Posted on November 29, 2014November 30, 2014 by Ram

About 3 weeks ago, I got an email notification from smartd that the regular SMART short check on one of the drives in my home server failed. The specific failure was a failure to read one of the sectors in the disk (current pending sector count went to 1 from 0). Now, it is hard…

Disk Pooling and Failure tolerance for Ubuntu NAS – mhddfs and SnapRAID

Posted on May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 by Ram

One of the key goals for my Ubuntu NAS was to have the ability to create a single storage pool out of all the disks in the NAS (OS is running off a USB thumb drive) and also provide some fault tolerance such that if a single disk failed, data wasn’t lost entirely. Even though…