Questions tagged [storage-spaces]
Storage Spaces is a Windows feature that allows one to group various physical drives into one logical drive.
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Storage space with 2 new SSD disks failure after 2 months, how to recover the data back?
I am not sure what happened but after simple reboot the P: drive was not there.
At the beginning both disk where showing OK, but with the ERROR on the pool.
I did some tests and after that one start ...
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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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Why is my SSD estimated remaining life dropping faster than expected?
I've used my Hynix BC501 SSD drive for about 4 years with 16.5TB total written data.
Its estimated life is now 41%, yet the expected life of my old PC's HDD, which I used for more than 10 years, is ...
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Is it possible to temporarily disable (turn off) a pool in Storage Spaces in Windows 10 or Windows 11?
My goal is to be able to use either a GUI interface or PowerShell script to temporarily disable or "turn off" a Storage Spaces pool, in either Windows 10 or Windows 11. But then re-enable it ...
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Creating a RAID-5 using Storage Spaces in Windows 11
I want to try the new Storage Spaces in Windows 11. Some years ago I bought an external enclosure with 5-bay for hard drives and also provide RAID 5 functionality out-of-the-box. It works pretty good ...
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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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Windows Storage Spaces 2-Way Mirror behavior in case of a faulty drive
Assuming a simple, fully-provisioned two-way mirror Storage Spaces setup on Windows 10/11, how does it behave when one of the drives gets faulty:
One of the drives cannot read some sectors, and SMART'...
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Is it safe to use Windows 11 Mirror Storage Spaces with BitLocker Auto-Unlock
There have been reports from a few years back (albeit both about Windows 10, not 11) regarding some issues / incompatibilities that lead to data loss / corruption of using Windows Storage Spaces where ...
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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 Space Unhealthy and Detached
I use Windows 11 Pro with a 3 way mirror storage space made of 5 physical disks (=2 redundant drives out of 5).
The storage pool is healthy (HealthStatus : Healthy)
All 5 physical disks are healthy (...
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Windows Storage Spaces broken after Windows Update
I've got a Simple (no resiliency) storage space configured on Windows 10, it's just some cheap low capacity sata SSD's striped together to make a fast game drive. Fortunately just steam games ...
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Why Storage Spaces does not see the disk in the pool changed its size?
I created a storage spaces pool on top of a VHDX file. Everything works fine, until I attempt to set new maximum to the VHDX file. In that case Storage Spaces can't see the updated size (and therefore ...
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Can I set contents in a folder to be placed in the specific Tier using Windows Tiered storage pool?
Say, my G: drive is created using the Tiered storage pool. I have 500GB SSD and 500GB HDD. I want to restrict all files in G:\backup to the HDD. Is it possible?
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Windows Storage Spaces folder disappers after copying into it
I created a new Windows 10 ReFS Storage Spaces drive with two brand new 4TB HDD-s (as mirrors). I filled the space with lots of data. Everything worked as expected.
I tried to copy one file by using ...
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Can't remove retired, physically removed drive from Storage Spaces
I have a RAID 5 Storage Space built in Windows 10. I used Hard Disk Sentinel to monitor the health of my drives but one of them went from 100% health to inoperable in an instant. It was causing file ...
