Questions tagged [storage-spaces]
Storage Spaces is a Windows feature that allows one to group various physical drives into one logical drive.
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Why is my SSD estimated remaining life dropping faster than expected?
I've used my Hynix BC501 SSD drive for about 4 years with 16.5TB total written data.
Its estimated life is now 41%, yet the expected life of my old PC's HDD, which I used for more than 10 years, is ...
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Is it possible to temporarily disable (turn off) a pool in Storage Spaces in Windows 10 or Windows 11?
My goal is to be able to use either a GUI interface or PowerShell script to temporarily disable or "turn off" a Storage Spaces pool, in either Windows 10 or Windows 11. But then re-enable it ...
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Creating a RAID-5 using Storage Spaces in Windows 11
I want to try the new Storage Spaces in Windows 11. Some years ago I bought an external enclosure with 5-bay for hard drives and also provide RAID 5 functionality out-of-the-box. It works pretty good ...
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Windows Server 2022, Storage Pool physical disks show up in Disk Manager, missing in pool
I have a WS2022 with a storage pool of six drives. Recently drives have been missing from the pool "Lost communication" and show up as drives with a Storage Spaces Protective Partition in ...
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Windows Storage Spaces 2-Way Mirror behavior in case of a faulty drive
Assuming a simple, fully-provisioned two-way mirror Storage Spaces setup on Windows 10/11, how does it behave when one of the drives gets faulty:
One of the drives cannot read some sectors, and SMART'...
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Is it safe to use Windows 11 Mirror Storage Spaces with BitLocker Auto-Unlock
There have been reports from a few years back (albeit both about Windows 10, not 11) regarding some issues / incompatibilities that lead to data loss / corruption of using Windows Storage Spaces where ...
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Is it possible to move Windows 11 Storage Spaces to Windows Server 2022 Storage Pools?
I created a Storage Pool (Mirror) on Windows 11 with two Drives (Mirror). Then, My System crashed. So, I took out the Drives and added them to my Windows Server 2022. However, I am not seeing the ...
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Windows Storage Space Unhealthy and Detached
I use Windows 11 Pro with a 3 way mirror storage space made of 5 physical disks (=2 redundant drives out of 5).
The storage pool is healthy (HealthStatus : Healthy)
All 5 physical disks are healthy (...
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Windows Storage Spaces broken after Windows Update
I've got a Simple (no resiliency) storage space configured on Windows 10, it's just some cheap low capacity sata SSD's striped together to make a fast game drive. Fortunately just steam games ...
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Moving USB hard drive Windows 11 storage space pool to a Windows 10 PC
I recently tried successfully to set up a parity storage space pool made up of 3 8TB USB drives. I transferred a lot of data to the drives, and the system works well. I know how to check the health of ...
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Why Storage Spaces does not see the disk in the pool changed its size?
I created a storage spaces pool on top of a VHDX file. Everything works fine, until I attempt to set new maximum to the VHDX file. In that case Storage Spaces can't see the updated size (and therefore ...
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Add mirror drive to existing (unmirrored) Storage Space without losing data?
Given an existing simple (non-resilient) Storage Space pool (2x2Tb drives), could I non-destructively add a third (4Tb) drive to the pool as a mirror of the two existing drives?
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Can I set contents in a folder to be placed in the specific Tier using Windows Tiered storage pool?
Say, my G: drive is created using the Tiered storage pool. I have 500GB SSD and 500GB HDD. I want to restrict all files in G:\backup to the HDD. Is it possible?
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Windows Storage Spaces folder disappers after copying into it
I created a new Windows 10 ReFS Storage Spaces drive with two brand new 4TB HDD-s (as mirrors). I filled the space with lots of data. Everything worked as expected.
I tried to copy one file by using ...
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Can't remove retired, physically removed drive from Storage Spaces
I have a RAID 5 Storage Space built in Windows 10. I used Hard Disk Sentinel to monitor the health of my drives but one of them went from 100% health to inoperable in an instant. It was causing file ...
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How to use a SSD as cache on Windows Server?
I have Windows Server 2022 2xHDD and 2xNVMe
Can I use NVMe like cache? Maybe Storage Spaces or other app? I want to use half of NVMe space directly for VMs and half of NVMe space for cache of HDD. ...
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Windows 11 Storage Spaces - What happens if the physical disks are different sizes?
I'm trying to understand how "smart" Windows Storages Spaces is when it comes to using disks with different capacities.
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I create a Storage Pool using a 6TB physical disk and a 10TB ...
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Why storage space does not allow you to use the full size of a disk
I have a storage pool with 3 SSD disks. They have different sizes, the largest one has 500GB. But after I added it to the pool and extended my volume, I found about 6GB of space I could not use.
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What does the "usage" mean in the "Get-PhysicalDisk" results?
The document for Get-PhysicalDisk simply listed the possible options for the Usage parameter. Does anyone know how those values are defined?
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How to move a Storage Space to a new computer?
Previously, I had installed Windows 11 Pro on a 240GB boot SSD. In addition to the boot SSD, I also had 4x1TB disks connected, configured in Windows as a Storage Spaces RAID5 pool. My boot drive ...
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Why is Storage Spaces created in GUI slower than when made by Powershell?
I created a Storage Space on Windows 10 using the Storage Spaces GUI and found that the read/write speeds are very slow. A dynamic stripe created in Disk Utility is about 3x faster. I repeated this ...
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Hard drives only showing half their capacity - no unallocated space - had been used in Windows pool ("raid")
I sincerely hope someone has any kind of idea, I have been trying for days to solve this problem.
I have 4x 16 TB Toshiba hard drives running in my Windows 10 PC and plugged in directly over the ...
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What is the proper way to do an in-place upgrade of a Windows Parity Storage Space?
I currently have a 3-drive parity storage space on Windows 10, which provides 16TB of storage across three 8TB drives.
I wish to upgrade this to use three larger drives for more space. Is there a way ...
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Backup / Mirror a drive to JBOD storage pool
I have a home NAS server running Windows Server 2016 with a JBOD of 5 disks configured in a single Storage Pool. I recently bought a single drive which is approximately the same size as the entire ...
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Simple Storage Space - more disks = faster read by slower write?
I'm trying to make use of some older, smaller disks & get maximum performance from them to hold Steam games/temporary photo editing files etc. - no resilience required.
(Disclaimer, I have 4 disks,...
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Disk Space Report for Multiple servers
I have writtern a script which will export the Disk space, RAM and CPU utilization details for multiple servers and the script is working a expected. I just want to done change to the outfile i.e, ...
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trying to install openSuse Leap 15.3 alongside existing windows10 on my surface pro
Device Spec
Windows Spec
Disk Partition in Windows
Now, when I restart and boot using a openSuse Leap 15.3 bootable USB, i expect to see a 100 GB disk that I could partition as required (root, home, ...
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I wiped all my most important data stored in Microsoft StorageSpaces due to a PowerShell copy/paste error. It formatted every volume! What can I do?
In Powershell ISE I meant to paste the drive letter D into the Command Browser argument for FormatDisk. But apparently the drive letter never got copied so it pasted New-VirtualDisk instead. I then ...
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Merge two ext4 spaces
I want to merge /dev/nvme0n1p6, which is system linux disk and /dev/nvme0n1p9. I have also Windows system on /dev/nvme0n1p4, so i want to save it
How can i merge /dev/nvme0n1p6 with /dev/nvme0n1p9 ...
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Is it wise to use parity over two-way mirror in a window storage space with 3 or more disks?
Windows storage spaces use slabs for the actual storage. Slabs are distributed in an (for the user) unknown fashion over the available disks. Even if you use two-way mirror and two disks you only know ...
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How does windows (11) two way mirrored storage spaces work exactly?
I'm setting up a Windows 11 machine using a storage spaces with two-way mirrored drives. As a test I've set this up in VMWare;
I've added two drives (2x10GB) and created the two-way mirrored storage ...
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How do I access a Windows 10 Storage Spaces from another Windows 10 install?
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So a while ago (maybe 3 weeks ago) I decided to divide my NVMe in half to duel boot Windows and Linux. In the process I somehow deleted my Windows boot partitions or something. I honestly ...
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Windows storage spaces will not let me remove a retired drive, now the pool is offline
I'm going a bit insane trying to fix this issue with my file server it's a plex server with some files built on windows 10 using parity. I had 6 drives and 1 failed, storage spaces would not let me ...
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RAID 5 bad sector / read error when rebuilding
Say I have a RAID 5 (Windows parity storage pool) and one drive fails.
I will plug in a new one and start rebuilding.
There are many people saying that if one of the remaining drives has a read ...
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Windows Storage Space Incorrect Pool Size
Storage Space Configuration Image
I have a Storage Pool here with a 10.9 TB capacity [image above]. I have 3 spaces in the pool, with a combined capacity of less than the total pool capacity, yet I am ...
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Expanding a partition to another drive
I don't know how to extend C Drive (in my SSD: 256GB) to my HDD (1TB), Is there a good way? I know in some IOs it will make my speed equal to HDD (in those which gonna be written on HDD obviously but, ...
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How to expand VHDX that use as physical drive in storage pool?
In Windows 10 Storage Spaces, it is possible to create a storage pool that use multiple VHDX as physical drive. For example, I create and mount 2x 5GB VHDX:
PS C:\> New-VHD -Path a:\test.vhdx -...
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Extremely Variable Write Speeds
I am using Microsoft Windows 10 Storage Spaces in Simple (not Parity or Mirroring) mode with 3 x external 8TB 5400 RPM drives.
Whilst transferring 10TB of data from a separate 12TB external 5400 RPM ...
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Get-Disk and Get-PhysicalDisk return different results
I am trying to set up storage spaces on Windows 10 Pro, but I am confused by the output of Get-Disk and Get-PhysicalDisk:
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-PhysicalDisk | select DeviceId,friendlyname,...
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Accessing window server 2012 (not R2) storage space from windows 10
As per title.
I have an old computer with 4 disks that make up a storage pool from windows server 2012 (non R2).
Can I attach those 4 disks to the windows 10 machine and load them up on windows 10? Or ...
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Does overwriting a file consumes extra space?
I have 1gb available space in my HDD which is composed of mainly movies and I want to overwrite files with same names and file size. The file that I want to replace is a 2gb movie and I want to ...
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Hardware RAID 1 vs Software RAID 1 vs Storage Spaces
I'm a long time power user but never had the chance or funds of running RAID in my system.
Last year i finally build a powerful system running an AMD X570 chipset and i use a HGST (now WD) HC530 HDD ...
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Storage devices fillled up but file still written to it
I created a bootable thumb drive for my windows installation and Ubuntu live CD, it also contains some windows exe (applications).
IMO in order to prevent against virus I came to the idea that I had ...
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Issues with Windows Storage Space GUI
Two parts question:
I have Simple Storage Space consisting of 3 small old SSDs which I created long time ago and barely used since. Now I wanted to remove one physical drive but even though 2 of 3 ...
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I can not remove disk from Storage Space
I have a storage pool that shows low capacity but there are actually at least 2.55TB free.
The storage pool is a simple drive so there is no redundancy. I am trying to remove one drive but I am not ...
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How to get Windows Storage Spaces warning message
In what must be one of the stranges UX decisions ever, Windows tells me that one of my physical drives in a Storage Pool has a warning - but that's it. Bad S.M.A.R.T. values ? Unstable read rates ? ...
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Microsoft performance storage tier is not being used
On Windows 10 I have set up tiered storage with two mirrored 512GB SSDs for the Performance tier and two mirrored 3TB hard drives for the Capacity tier. When I optimize the storage tiers it shows that ...
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Storage Space, 12TB of data using all 54TB of drive space
Ok, so I have 10 hard drives split into two pools. Total amount of real data is around 12TB, but it’s using 54TB of space and both Storage Spaces show as RAW and Unhealthy.
I cannot access the data. ...
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How does storage space (Simple), without resilience, save the files on the harddisk
If you create for example 3x4tb Storage spaces, without any resilience (simple), and one drive crashes, will you lose everything, or just that's on just that drive?
is it saving the data in stripes ...
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How to access the Windows 10 Storage Space in another Windows notebook?
I created a windows 10 storage space in an external USB storage connected to my Windows 10 Pro. I've lost my Windows 10 installation on my notebook. My backups were in the Storage Space (external USB ...
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