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    Power went out while formatting drives for Software RAID 5

    I don't really know enough about Linux to be comfortable with it, I've tried using Kubuntu as my main OS for my laptop and managed to break it to the point where I had to reinstall no less than 3 times before I gave up. My problem is I am never satisfied with things as they are by default and am...
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    Power went out while formatting drives for Software RAID 5

    Ouch. This feels like the time I discovered Firefly a week before it got canceled.
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    Power went out while formatting drives for Software RAID 5

    Yes, this is exactly the problem I was hoping to avoid. I have multiple users in my home, many of whom would not understand or be annoyed at having to remember what is where, what should go where, etc. Also, as, for example, our collection of DVD TV shows grows, even with 2TB allocated to TV...
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    Power went out while formatting drives for Software RAID 5

    I'm reading about this and this "drive extender" sounds like exactly what I want. The only reason I went with RAID 5 is because I wanted all my storage to appear as one one drive to programs and networked computers/devices, but didn't want to lose everything in the event one drive failed. This...
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    Power went out while formatting drives for Software RAID 5

    I fully intend to get a UPS before I start putting all my data on it, I was hoping to find a deal on one this weekend. I just didn't expect the formatting to take so long, and I haven't had the power flicker out in about 4 months, so I thought I would be safe. I would just like to reiterate...
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    Power went out while formatting drives for Software RAID 5

    Yeah, I've considered that. I've read that when XP SP3 came out everyone who had been doing this in SP2 found that their RAID was missing. But copying the server files back to the same place fixed the issue and all their data was still intact. As a precaution, I've disabled automatic updates on...
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    Power went out while formatting drives for Software RAID 5

    I was formatting 4 2TB SATA drives (all brand new) for a software RAID 5 setup. I'm re-purposing an old Dell desktop to be a media center computer for the living room, and home media file storage for the other computers in the house. The Dell Motherboard only supports RAID 0 or 1, and it wasn't...