Questions tagged [storage-pool]
Storage Pools is a feature in windows 8 and server 2012 that allows multiple disks to be combined together. It also allows for redundancy - with 2, 3 or raid style options
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Windows Storage Pool stuck in ReadOnly state
So to make a long story short(er), I suspect I had a bad SATA card. I have a 8 drive storage pool in Windows 11 in Storage Spaces (1 parity) that's been running great for a few months. Suddenly it ...
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Is there any way to create a sequential storage space on Windows?
I want to create a storage space out of VHDX files for purposes I won't get into here, and I need Windows to write files to the VHDX files sequentially. As it stands, Windows spreads the data more or ...
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Drive balancing and duplication with mergefs in Ubuntu
I want to use mergefs to create a drive pool in Ubuntu.
Is there any option available on mergefs to pick the drive with the most "relative" free space (the % Free space of the drive) instead ...
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Windows Server 2022, Storage Pool physical disks show up in Disk Manager, missing in pool
I have a WS2022 with a storage pool of six drives. Recently drives have been missing from the pool "Lost communication" and show up as drives with a Storage Spaces Protective Partition in ...
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Is it possible to move Windows 11 Storage Spaces to Windows Server 2022 Storage Pools?
I created a Storage Pool (Mirror) on Windows 11 with two Drives (Mirror). Then, My System crashed. So, I took out the Drives and added them to my Windows Server 2022. However, I am not seeing the ...
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Windows storage spaces will not let me remove a retired drive, now the pool is offline
I'm going a bit insane trying to fix this issue with my file server it's a plex server with some files built on windows 10 using parity. I had 6 drives and 1 failed, storage spaces would not let me ...
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RAID 5 bad sector / read error when rebuilding
Say I have a RAID 5 (Windows parity storage pool) and one drive fails.
I will plug in a new one and start rebuilding.
There are many people saying that if one of the remaining drives has a read ...
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Windows Storage Space Incorrect Pool Size
Storage Space Configuration Image
I have a Storage Pool here with a 10.9 TB capacity [image above]. I have 3 spaces in the pool, with a combined capacity of less than the total pool capacity, yet I am ...
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Windows 10 drives pool questions (replace, upgrade)
i have some questions about Windows 10 pool.
Let's suppose i have 4 disks ot 4TB and i choose the parity option. This means Window will simulate a RAID 6? Because in my test i see 8TB as drive space.
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How to create a NAS based storage pool?
How can I create a NAS-based storage pool that takes my disks on the network, create partitions and an FS and give me a combined pool totaling the sum of all the storage devices?
I know a similar ...
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I can not remove disk from Storage Space
I have a storage pool that shows low capacity but there are actually at least 2.55TB free.
The storage pool is a simple drive so there is no redundancy. I am trying to remove one drive but I am not ...
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Storage Space, 12TB of data using all 54TB of drive space
Ok, so I have 10 hard drives split into two pools. Total amount of real data is around 12TB, but it’s using 54TB of space and both Storage Spaces show as RAW and Unhealthy.
I cannot access the data. ...
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Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files (x86)\[...]'
I have the error shown on the image when I launch Steam, Acrobat Reader, Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Citrix receiver.
This is probably correlated: 2 days ago I tested a hard drive and connected it to ...
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Drawbacks of small ZFS pools versus large
We are redesigning out current ZFS file server. It currently only has one pool of over 70TB.
I see this is a problem since, if there are enough disk failures within the pool to make it non-...
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How to repair mirror set in Windows Storage Pool?
I have a storage pool with 2x2 drives in it. This is an "upgraded" Storage Pool being hosted by Windows 10 1809. One of the drives has started throwing errors -- SMART shows over a thousand recently-...
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