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Tagged with storage-spaces windows-server-2012-r2
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How to use a SSD as cache on Windows Server?
I have Windows Server 2022 2xHDD and 2xNVMe
Can I use NVMe like cache? Maybe Storage Spaces or other app? I want to use half of NVMe space directly for VMs and half of NVMe space for cache of HDD. ...
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Fileserver with huge RAM (preferrably windows 2012 R2)
I have server with 32GB. Currently it's windows server 2012 R2
It serves as fileserver. 4 Hard Drives with 1 SSD configured with storage pool with hot spare.
To simplify the question, i just want to ...
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(Win Server 2012 R2) Can't enable data deduplication
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Datacentre edition)
I cannot enable Data Deduplication. This particular volume previously had data deduplication enabled. Computer was changed from BIOS to UEFI boot, so ...
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Hard drive requirments for a home NAS Streaming (Plex) server
I plan to build this server to store my Blu-Ray rips, personal photos and music.
My original plan was to install Ubuntu but now I plan to run Windows Server 2012 R2 - Datacenter, I get it for free as ...
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One big storage pool vs. several smaller ones
I'm building a home server with Windows Server 2012 R2 and am planning to utilise the Storage Spaces feature. I have 4 hard drives (4 TB WD Reds) that will be holding a variety of data - media files, ...
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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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