• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Win10 Storage Spaces

Homerboy

Homerboy

Lifer
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?
 
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.
 
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?
 
Homerboy said:
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?
Click to expand...

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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top