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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
by 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!