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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Rebalance hard drives in a Storage Space Pool?
I have 2x 1.5TB drives in a (two-way mirror storage pool). That pool recently hit 100% capacity meaning both drives had 0% space left.
I added 2x 4TB drives to the storage pool but Storage space ...
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Storage Spaces - mix SSD with HDD
Can't really find any info so I'm hoping someone here can shed some light.
I have a fresh copy of Windows 8 Pro installed. I want to use storage spaces with 4 internal HDD and 2 internal SSD's. Does ...
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Best performance: Windows 10 software striping vs. storage spaces simple
Looking to squeeze a bit more speed out of my development PC for test VMs without necessarily switching to hardware RAID. I've got two identical 2TB SATA-3 data drives (OS is on SSD) so I could ...
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Can't remove unused physical disk from Storage Spaces pool
I have a 6-drive mirrored Storage Spaces array in Windows 10, made of 2x 4TB and 4x 3TB drives.
One of the 4TB drives was showing a failure, so I've replaced it and currently have a 7th drive (4TB) ...
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In Windows 10 Pro Storage Space, why can't I use ReFS with Parity?
NTFS is the only option when Parity is selected as the resiliency type. I thought ReFS was suppose to replace NTFS? I am trying to create a storage space to use for network file share.
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Linux alternative to Storage Spaces
I currently run a small home media server on a Windows machine. I'd like to swap it to a small compute stick of some sort running a thin linux distro.
However, the reason I chose Windows to begin ...
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What are the options to speed up write speed for Storage Spaces using parity?
I'm wondering what my options are for speeding up the write speed to my storage spaces that's using parity.
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Windows 10 64-bit verison 1607
Intel i7-7700k
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Samsung 960 EVO
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Storage spaces on Windows 10 and tiering
I have a number of disks on my Windows 10 (pro if it maters) desktop and have been toying with storage spaces. I'd like some advice on how to configure storage volumes for my use cases. I know the ...
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How to change Windows 8 Storage Pool Resiliency type?
After creating a number of Storage Spaces in Windows 8 how can you later change the Storage Space resiliency type to something different? So far the only work around I have found is to create a new ...
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Connecting a USB Flash Drive to Storage Spaces
I have been playing around with Storage Spaces for a while now, originally in Win 8.1 and now 10, and have found the technology to be so useful.
I have recently come into possession of 10 64GB USB 3....
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Can I move to a mirrored Storage Space without losing data?
I have a single HDD. It is 35% full and contains only content. I have a separate SSD boot device with Windows on it.
I would like to buy another (identically sized) HDD and create a mirrored ...
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How does storage spaces decide where to put my files?
With Windows 8 Storage Spaces, you can lump many hard disks of varying types, speeds and sizes together to use as a single storage space / logical drive.
How does Windows decide what to place where?
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Windows Server Software RAID 6
I want to set up a software RAID 6 configuration, but in Windows Server 2008 it only lets me do up to RAID 5. In Server 2012 I saw they have this new thing called "Storage Spaces" which sounds neat, ...
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How do I replace a harddrive that is in a two-way mirror storage space on Windows 8?
I have a storage space in Windows 8 doing a two-way mirror on three harddrives. The sizes are 297GB, 189GB, and 70GB. I would like to replace the 70GB HD with a larger one. My thought was to remove ...
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Windows Storage Spaces is incorrectly giving "Low capacity" warning after windows update
I have a simple pool of two 1TB drives (HDD) setup in a two way mirror (only one disk created). Yesterday it was showing that 1 TB of the 1.81 TB pool capacity was used. Which sound correct because I ...
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Can Storage Spaces cause Fraps to stutter?
So I am using Storage Spaces to get multiple hard drives together under one Drive Letter (regular hard drives). I installed Fraps on it. My OS and my games are installed on another hard drive (an SSD)....
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Windows 10 Storage Space Creation Error
I've been having issues lately with an existing storage space. I had a drive fail and the storage space was too thinly provisioned to recover. I removed the drive from the space and recovered some ...
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Is it possible to boot Windows 1809 system from Storage Spaces
The Surface Pro 2017 1TB boots from a 2 drive Storage Spaces pool.
Thomas Maurer wrote a blog entry with some observations on how the Surface may do it and there are a few forum posts about it.
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How robust is two-way mirrored storage spaces in Windows? Are there any common gotchas?
I'm running Windows 10 Pro and have set up a Storage Pool with 3+3+6+6+6=24 TB with a two-way mirroring configuration. I've done this so that if one of the disks fail I can add a new one to compensate....
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How to repair mirror set in Windows Storage Pool?
I have a storage pool with 2x2 drives in it. This is an "upgraded" Storage Pool being hosted by Windows 10 1809. One of the drives has started throwing errors -- SMART shows over a thousand recently-...
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how to move storage pool
My question is similar --- but not quite the same as the one that lead me here.
I had a WIN 10 system with 4 HDDs in a storage pool. System died and cannot be repaired. Appears all 4 HDDs are OK.
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Remove drive from Windows Storage Spaces
I have build a HTPC with the drives in the same case.
It runs on W8 and uses Storage Spaces to manage the data and create a single cluster for all the hard drives which is easier to manage in XBMC.
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Which external USB drives work with Windows 8 Storage Spaces?
First, a bit of background:
Microsoft brags about how the new Windows 8 Storage Spaces support any interface (including USB) for attaching drives to add to a Storage Pool:
http://windows.microsoft....
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Virtual disk still shows up as degraded after repair
On a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2, I have a virtual disk consisting of 8 physical disks in a parity configuration. One drive died, so I replaced the dead drive and followed these ...
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Expanding a FreeNAS/ZFS pool by migrating to Storage Spaces Parity
I currently have 3x4TB drives in a RAID-Z1 configuration using FreeNAS, which give me approx. 8TB of usable space in a single volume. I'm approaching 6TB, so I'm considering my options for expansion/...
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How does performance scale in a single column 2-way mirrored storage space as more disks are added?
In Windows 8.1 Storage Spaces, there seems to be pretty solid evidence that 2-way mirrored storage spaces have performance that improves significantly as more disks are added to the pool as long as ...
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Calculate usable storage space with different size drives in Windows Storage Spaces?
I'd like to create a parity storage space in Windows 10 with a 5 tb disk and two 3 tb disks. Is there a way to calculate how much usable space this will give me?
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Windows Server Storage Spaces tier write-back cache, how to configure threshold that determines if write is performed on write-back cache?
The Storage Spaces feature included with Windows Server 2012 and the upcoming Windows Server 2016 consists of a virtual disk. In a tiered storage deployment a write-back cache is created (the default ...
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Fileserver with huge RAM (preferrably windows 2012 R2)
I have server with 32GB. Currently it's windows server 2012 R2
It serves as fileserver. 4 Hard Drives with 1 SSD configured with storage pool with hot spare.
To simplify the question, i just want to ...
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Storage Spaces - removal of disk in Simple array
I have a simple array set up in Storage Spaces that consists of 5 hard drives: four are 3TB and one is 2TB. I want to replace that 2TB with a larger drive, but it has 40.1 % of the disk being used (...
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Can I install Windows 8 onto a Storage Spaces Pool
I am going to perform a clean installation of Windows 8 Pro onto my computer.
Due to upgrades over time I currently have 2 x 120 GB SSD drives.
Is it possible to create a Storage Space Pool using ...
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Storage Space Error Inaccessible; Reconnect Drives
The storage spaces section in control panel lists "Error Inaccessible; reconnect drives", however each of the physical drives reports a status of "OK":
Can someone please help me restore the storage ...
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Windows 10 Storage Spaces recover data from 2-way mirror
I got some serious problem with my backup:
Due to faulty power supply, 3 out of my 4 HDDs died.... Since I did set up a storage pool with "2-way mirroring", I was quite optimistic to recover most of ...
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Storage Spaces out of space
I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise. I have four identical 3TB disks set up in a Storage Space pool. Each disk shows up as providing 2.72 TB to the pool. I create a storage space with REFS and resiliency ...
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How to remove a drive from a storage pool on Windows 8?
I have 3 drives in a Storage Space on Windows 8. I am running a two way mirror. The drives are 2x2TB and 1x1TB. I want to remove the 1TB drive without replacing it. In other words, I only want the ...
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How to run ChkDsk on Storage Spaces which is stuck in read only mode?
I am having a number of issues with Storage Spaces which began when a drive died. I have 5 WD Reds in Parity. I have not replaced the disk but the drive refuses to come in to Read / Write mode and ...
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Path to executable in Windows Firewall rule contains random number after colon
When I run an executable located on Storage Spaces disk that requires incoming network connections, the Windows firewall incorrectly determines the full executable path.
the actual path is M:\sw\test....
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Disband Two-Way Mirror Storage Pool
I am attempting to split a two-way mirror storage space. There are two physical disks in the storage space. The idea is to keep the contents of the storage space, while going back to NTFS. I do not ...
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Storage Spaces BSOD after re-installing Windows 8.1
After reinstalling Windows 8.1, reconnecting my Storage Spaces array causes a BSOD.
I have a 3 drive Storage Spaces array + separate SSD. I re-installed Windows 8 -> and upgrade to 8.1
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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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Windows10 Pro Storage Spaces, list disks belonging to specific storage pool in PowerShell
Is there any way in Windows 10 Pro Powershell to list which Physical disks belong to a specific StoragePool? You can see this in the GUI, but the GUI is hopelessly unstable?
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How do you replace/upgrade hard drives in a window storage pool?
I currently have a storage pool that consists 6 drives in parity. 3x4TB and 3x8TB. I just purchased three more 8TB with the intention of replacing the 3x4TB drives but am having trouble figuring out ...
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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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Storage Spaces Critical Write Error
So I have a Windows 10 box with 5 WD Reds in it configured using Storage Spaces. Last Saturday I performed windows updates on the machine, which brought Windows 10 up to build 1709. I have three VMs ...
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Storage Spaces 'offline due to critical write failures; add drives'
I am getting an error in Windows 10 Storage Spaces and the Virtual Volume has been taken offline. The error is Error Offline due to critical write failures; add drives.
If i look at the Physical ...
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How to add an additional drive to a Storage Spaces Virtual Disk
I have a Server 2012 server with 3x2TB drives set up in a parity layout, giving me 4TB of space. I want to add another 2TB to that virtual disk. However, when I add the drive, it shows up as ...
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Mirror Internal Hard Drive Partition to External Hard Drive Partition
I have a ~1.5 TB partition in my internal hard drive out of which ~320 GB is used. I also have a 450 GB partition in an external hard drive connected through USB 3.0.
First, I want to mirror the ...
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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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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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Understanding Storage Spaces capacity descriptions
I have a Storage Spaces array in Windows 10 consisting of 7 SATA HDDs ranging from 3TB -> 8TB each (-edit- for completeness, those drive capacities are: {3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 8}).
I'm trying to ...
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