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RAID setup for Ubuntu media server
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I did this yesterday for my media server on Debian and it was very easy. Use mdadm to create the raid. There are guides online on how that are very easy to follow. You may want to use partitions on the drives as another comment recommended (mdadm supports whole drives and partitions so do whatever you think is best). Next you should have a device /dev/mdX that you can format to your fs of choice. After that just use lsblk to get the uuid of the raid and mount it in fstab like any other drive.