This guide covers building a software RAID1 mirror with LVM on Ubuntu using two 10TB drives. The combination of mdadm for mirroring and LVM for volume management provides redundancy against single drive failure while maintaining the flexibility to resize, snapshot, or extend storage without repartitioning. Overview The storage stack consists of mdadm software RAID1 at […]
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Buying and Setting Up a Hetzner Auction Server
This post documents the process of purchasing a used dedicated server from Hetzner Server Auction and configuring it as a hardened Ubuntu 26.04 system with RAID1 NVMe storage. The target hardware is an Intel i7-7700 with 1TB NVMe drives in software RAID configuration. Finding and Purchasing the Server Hetzner provides two tools for locating dedicated […]