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> Windows exempted, as there's unfortunately nothing better available for Windows. Something wrong with dynamic disks for software raid for the os in windows?

• zerkten 7y ago
  I wanted to love Storage Spaces, but I had huge issue with a leak in the driver that caused the non-paged pool to grow on my machines. It got fixed, but I'm struggling with the idea of going back to it after the experience and stuck with dynamic disks.
• vardump 7y ago
  Create a mirrored volume out of two disks, both with ReFS (or ZFS) and dynamic disk software RAID. Remember to enable ReFS integrity streams! ZFS protects full integrity by default. NTFS supports only protecting metadata, file data integrity is not protected. Fill the volumes with known data. Randomly corrupt some blocks out of disks (but not from both disks at same offsets!). Observe which solution recovers and returns correct file data and which does not. Hint: you might want to stop using dynamic disk RAID after this experiment... Storage Spaces operates on a higher level, building on lower level volumes. I'd feel way more comfortable using it on ReFS, at least once it can be considered sufficiently mature in the future. See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview#storage-spaces https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs.... No qualms about trusting ZFS, it's very solid on good hardware. Of course running ZFS on Windows in production might be a Very Bad Idea, so do it on FreBSD, Solaris derivatives or Linux instead!
• Osiris 7y ago
  I'm using storage spaces on a home machine. It's very flexible, my machine is using 5 disks arranged in 2 separate logical volumes (one parity, one mirror). The write speeds are terrible, around 25MB/s. Read speeds are >100 MB/s.