Win10 Storage Spaces

[Homerboy]

I currently have a 3 disk Win10 Storage Space created in Two-Way mirror.
I've decided that overall space is more important to me than redundancy of data at this point, so I was planning on converting to a "simple" Storage Space to maximize capacity.

But then I started to worry -- what if one disk did in fact fail. While I wouldn't be too hear broken about the data on that single disk, it would suck to lose ALL the data across all the disks. I realize that the storage space would likley be dead, but if 1 of the 3 disks fails, am I still ale to take the individual disks, and recover data from them to copy to new HDDs? Or if 1 drive fails, are none of them readable at all?

 

[Ketchup]

How much of the data is actually changing daily (or hourly, minutely, etc)?

I have never done RAID for home use for that reason. There just isn't any need. My kids can go without last-year's spongeboob recordings for a few days, you know? I keep a backup of everything separate from the (any) machine. I update it every couple months. The ever changing things get updated daily to another computer on the network.

 

[Homerboy]

I agree -- that's why I want to migrate off of this current two-way mirror setup and in essence just set up the Storage Space as JBODs and maximize space.
"Important things" like family photos/documents are replicated on separate machines within the house and backed up nightly offsite too.

My question still holds though, if I go to "simple storage space", if 1 HDD fails does that also make the other disks unreadable? (either in that machine or an entirely separate machine). I guess I could simulate a failure by unplugging one of the disks and seeing if there is still content that I can read/access, right?

 

[Ketchup]

Simulation sounds like a great idea. Let (or me at least) know how it goes.

 

[quikah]

My question still holds though, if I go to "simple storage space", if 1 HDD fails does that also make the other disks unreadable? (either in that machine or an entirely separate machine). I guess I could simulate a failure by unplugging one of the disks and seeing if there is still content that I can read/access, right?

My understanding of Simple Storage space is that it is essentially RAID0, so you would lose everything.

If you only care about space just configure each disk as a seperate volume.