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How To Manage RAID Arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu 22.04

Published on October 21, 2022
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Introduction

RAID arrays provide increased performance and redundancy by combining individual disks into virtual storage devices in specific configurations. In Linux, the mdadm utility creates and manages software RAID arrays.

In a previous guide, we covered how to create RAID arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu 22.04. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to manage RAID arrays on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

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Tutorial Series: How To Configure RAID Arrays on Ubuntu

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.

About the author(s)

Former Senior Technical Writer at DigitalOcean, specializing in DevOps topics across multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, as well as Debian 10 and 11.

Associate Technical Writer @ DigitalOcean

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