Night Prowler Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 I had no idea that Windows had something called Storage Spaces that is supposed to be better than Software RAID 1. Has anyone had experience with this technology? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billaguana Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 This is just a virtual raid manager, and any hardware raid will beat it out of the park. If you are using something like Intel Storage Manager for a software raid currently, then you are essentially doing the same thing. I guess you could be using this for a computer that supports no raid, but again it will not be faster than a hardware raid. And as for the RAID 1: RAID1 has never really been in competition with other raids because it is mirror and not stripe. Stripe is speed, mirror is redundancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted June 22, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 22, 2015 No this is completely different from what Intel Storage Manager does and is more akin to Synology's Hybrid RAID which can use partial disks to create another array. OP: What is the use case you are thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billaguana Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 No this is completely different from what Intel Storage Manager does and is more akin to Synology's Hybrid RAID which can use partial disks to create another array. Sorry, software partition raids then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted June 22, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 22, 2015 Sorry, software partition raids then? No... still a long way from that. Read this. I had a bit of play when Server 2012 was in beta, but I never got a the 'pull the disk' use case to ever work. It would wipe out the space. Don't know if it was just because it was a flaky beta though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasondefaoite Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 It's supposed to have pretty poor write performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 22, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 22, 2015 As Fahim requested -- what is the use case.. What sort of files are you storing, is this an OS? Movies? How much storage, are we talking 1TB or 20? What is the expected growth of this storage over say the next 6 months or year or 2 years even? What is the requirement for files to be online if hardware failure? I take it this is home use of files? There are many ways to skin the cat depending on the actual cat.. For my use case I have found that drive pool by stablebit blows away hardware/software raid or drive spaces.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Prowler Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 This is just a virtual raid manager, and any hardware raid will beat it out of the park. If you are using something like Intel Storage Manager for a software raid currently, then you are essentially doing the same thing. I guess you could be using this for a computer that supports no raid, but again it will not be faster than a hardware raid. And as for the RAID 1: RAID1 has never really been in competition with other raids because it is mirror and not stripe. Stripe is speed, mirror is redundancy. Its a file server running RAID1 on Windows 7, so redundancy is far more desirable than speed. I have hardware raid but I'm only getting 1.xGB as a maximum amount to set. I have 2 4TB, and it doesn't see it... The last RAID0 I had, I lost a drive, well you can imagine where I was at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Prowler Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 No this is completely different from what Intel Storage Manager does and is more akin to Synology's Hybrid RAID which can use partial disks to create another array. OP: What is the use case you are thinking of? I'm thinking I can use my retail 8.x license from my desktop on my file server when I install Windows 10 on my personal desktop. I'm using this as a file server only running RAID1 on 2 4TB hard drives. I've been on Windows 7 for several years now on the file server and it just works. I was reading that Storage Spaces was available starting on Windows 8.x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billaguana Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 This is why we use RAID 5. Just get 3 drives and you are in business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Prowler Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 As Fahim requested -- what is the use case.. What sort of files are you storing, is this an OS? Movies? How much storage, are we talking 1TB or 20? What is the expected growth of this storage over say the next 6 months or year or 2 years even? What is the requirement for files to be online if hardware failure? I take it this is home use of files? There are many ways to skin the cat depending on the actual cat.. For my use case I have found that drive pool by stablebit blows away hardware/software raid or drive spaces.. This file server has been in operation for several years now, and so far the only thing I've done is update the drives. I push movies and preform network backups. I'll never go over 4TB of storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conna Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I have been using SS for a while. Lab and production. ReFs and all. It will have no problem with your 4TB drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Don't mind Storage spaces, does the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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