Thanks, Darien! This video is very helpful.

Great job. Nice overview

Is there a way to monitor the storage spaces for physical drive failure or other virtual failures without physically logging into windows. Something proactive that will generate alerts or email.

What happens if you lose access to Windows. Is it possible to just reinstall windows and recover the pools/virtual drives and restore data?

Thank you for the very helpful series! I have setup Win Server 2022, I have a pool of drives, but i cannot expand it due to small cluster error message. (Curently maxed out at 16TB...) So i took everything of the pool, i'm gonna delete it and build a new one. I have 2X16TB, 2X10TB & 2X8TB drives to allocate. I'm gonna use ReFS, Parity (single or dual?), Thin, and automaic allocation? What do i have to look at so i can take advantage om my HDD Space? Cluster size is the automatic allocation setting? Thanks in advance!!!

@darienstips9409

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the feedback. If you are going to possible expand, you will want to use ReFS. Especially if you are going to use the volume to host VM disks. If, however, your volume is to store a lot of small files, NTFS may be a better choice. Use thin and auto allocation. If you want max space, then single parity is your choice. But know that single parity will only support a single drive failure.

Okay, but how do you make the system drive redundant? You have to install windows on a drive in the first place in order to get to these screens to create a storage space and the primordial storage only seems to contain all of the other drives. How do you make the system drive redundant if you're just looking for some basic redundancy?

@TEverettReynolds

2 ай бұрын

He said it at @1:04. He had 2 x 254 GB disks in Raid 1.

@joerebis2063

2 ай бұрын

​@@TEverettReynolds I meant using storage spaces. Is that possible?

@Completely_Incomplete

Ай бұрын

​@@joerebis2063 don't think this is possible using storage spaces but you could use traditional Windows Mirroring in Disk Management

@joerebis2063

Ай бұрын

@@Completely_Incomplete Thank you, I have just heard that it is potentially pretty slow and that might be an issue on the system drive. I run NVME capable RAID cards on other larger servers that I have but that's too expensive for a commodity server. My guess I am just trying to figure out what everybody is doing for system drive redundancy in an NVME environment in an AMD system without an external card. I used to use Intel RAID on Chip (ROC Chip) but it requires Intel CPUs and might still pose a bottle neck for NVME throughput.

@Completely_Incomplete

Ай бұрын

@@joerebis2063 I don't see how Mirroring using Windows (not storage spaces) would be any slower than just running a single drive. If it was Raid5 I'd understand that performance wouldn't be great. But with raid 1 you get double the safety and no advantage or disadvantage to speed.