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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Uneven drive size in two way mirrored storage space after replacing a drive
I have been running a 4x 2TB array for a 4TB storage pool in a two-way mirroring configuration. I am dual booting this machine with Windows 10 Pro and an early access version of Windows Server 2019.
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Failed to recognize storage pool after reinstalling windows 10
I have reinstalled Windows 10 since the SSD was failed. Before it fails, I have a storage pool running on RAID 1. But after the re-installation, it can't detect the pool. The physical drives are not ...
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how to move storage pool
My question is similar --- but not quite the same as the one that lead me here.
I had a WIN 10 system with 4 HDDs in a storage pool. System died and cannot be repaired. Appears all 4 HDDs are OK.
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StorageSpaces reports Media Failure and retired the drive, but the drive appears fine
A few days ago my computer started acting funny with mysterious errors and crashes, it felt like it maybe should have BSOD'ed "to prevent damage to my computer", but didn't. It took half an hour to ...
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ZFS hot spare not working
I have the fallowing ZFS test pool setup in my vm:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
pool DEGRADED 0 0 0
mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0
sdb ...
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Healthy unknown partition created in WS2012 R2 storage pools - How to recover?
I'm seting up a file server from a WS 2012 R2 VM hosted in hyper-v. I have a raid 1 array for the file server storage that is implemented by an Adaptec 5805 raid card. This disk was set to offline in ...
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Create one virtual volume (Storage Pool) from multiple machines (WinServ2012)
Is it possible to create one storage pool or virtual volume from all of the drives in several machines with Windows Server 2012?
I imagine this would come from creating a Storage Space on each ...
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Windows 8.1: Storage spaces, storage pool, resiliancy: confused
I have two identical external 2TB USB drives and want to combine them using the native storage pool for redundancy (Mirrored, so either drive can fail and data will be safe). However, I don't know if ...
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Can an existing Win8 storage space be migrated from 2-way mirror to parity?
This is the exact scenario I am looking to solve:
I currently have 2x 4TB drives set up as a two-way mirror. I am now just about out of space and would like to be able to add a third 4TB drive and ...
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Storage Spaces - mix SSD with HDD
Can't really find any info so I'm hoping someone here can shed some light.
I have a fresh copy of Windows 8 Pro installed. I want to use storage spaces with 4 internal HDD and 2 internal SSD's. Does ...
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How to change Windows 8 Storage Pool Resiliency type?
After creating a number of Storage Spaces in Windows 8 how can you later change the Storage Space resiliency type to something different? So far the only work around I have found is to create a new ...
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Windows 8 Storage Pool in "Unrecognized Configuration", but Appears Healthy
I recently had a crash on my machine running W8 Pro x64. When I rebooted, my storage pool was offline, and I got a message stating that I had "Drives in an unrecognized configuration". However, it ...
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What is storage spaces, and what kind of drives can I use it with?
Mucking around with the control panel, I found that there's a feature called storage spaces. Ars Technica mentions it as a way to pool drives and add redundancy (which is really cool).
However when ...
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