How To Master Storage Spaces In Windows 8

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 30 October 2012 - 02:05 AM

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#2 jbscpa

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Posted 30 October 2012 - 07:21 PM

Will Storage Spaces recognize solid state drives?

Will it allow "trim" functions in the Storage Space?

How will it work in a mixed SSD and mechanical hard drive Storage Space?

#3 jklinck

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 06:04 AM

Very handy tool, but unfortunately it only seems available in Windows 8 and not Windows RP where it would be really useful for working with the microSD storage.

#4 ronin7752

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 04:33 PM

Cute.

But for 99.9% of Windows users... useless.

90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

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Posted 03 November 2012 - 02:53 PM

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Cute. But for 99.9% of Windows users... useless.

Why would it be useless???

#6 DavidNation

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 12:58 AM

well I did everything that I was supposed to do. Now I don't see anyway to put my files on the drive and it removed it from the computer page..anyone tell me what i need to do??...thanks

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Posted 12 November 2012 - 12:31 PM

Hi, I installed the final version of Windows 8 as a fresh install. Created a storage space with 4 identical 3TB drives using Parity scheme. Created the volume D: and started a copy of about 6TB of my data. When I woke up in the morning I saw this: http://imgur.com/YY5su
Now way to view my files, just format or delete. Question: Is my data lost?
In storage management he volume appear as unallocated volume. I installed software to the volume as well as moved tons of data so the volume did exist.

#8 Brandon77

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 04:02 AM

Nice article on storage spaces, as myself I have a home theater PC setup in my house. I do have a few questions that I couldn't find google and I searched for awhile.

1. On my home theater desktop I have 6 internal 2.0 tb drives that are D,E,F,G,H,I (all with data on them of course.) They are a mixed of drives WD Green, Hitachi, and Samsung (before they got ate by Seagate) I wanted to create a my first pool with that with parity scheme of course. I suspect my read & write times may be affected by not by much (I hope)

2. I also have 2 5 bay Sans Digital Towers that came packaged with the RocketRaid 622 PCI-E Card. Now the drives are not running in a RAID off that card. Would storage spaces work with those drives. For instance I take the first Sans Digital Tower which has 5x2tb drives (all Samsung) and create a pool with parity that should give me around 8.0tb (1 drive being used for parity) and do the same with the other Sans Digital Tower. Giving them each different pool names.

My concern is that one day one of those drives will die, it happens, but these Sans units are connected through eSata on the rocketraid 622 Sata 6.0gbps card.

Would my read/write times be affected by this? In JBOD they I get 90-120MB/s copy speed (it varies believe me) but we all know windows and the drive letter limitation. I do know you can mount them to a folder but if I were going to do that I'd just use Linux.

Could I experience any issues with speed? Before I start this project I plan to create 3 Storage Pools

For example D: (Storage) and E:\ (Storage SAN01) and F:\(Storage SAN02) I do not want to mix all the drives together in 1 giant pool.

We do at lot of streaming at home to our WD TV Lives and I don't want the performance affected.