Storage Spaces: What Happens With Drive Fails?
 

Suppose I set up a Storage Space with a dozen drives and dual redundancy
(i.e. up to 2 drives can fail concurrently without data being lost).

Now let's say that one of the 12 drives fails.

What will Windows 8 tell me that will enable me to locate the drive?


I am coming from Windows Home Server where this is an issue: drive
fails, all WSH tells me is the make/model.

If Windows 8 can handle this with some degree of grace, I will probably
rebuild my WSH box using Windows 8.
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Pete Cresswell

Storage Spaces: What Happens With Drive Fails?
 

On 4/03/2013 9:55 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Suppose I set up a Storage Space with a dozen drives and dual redundancy
(i.e. up to 2 drives can fail concurrently without data being lost).

Now let's say that one of the 12 drives fails.

What will Windows 8 tell me that will enable me to locate the drive?


I am coming from Windows Home Server where this is an issue: drive
fails, all WSH tells me is the make/model.

If Windows 8 can handle this with some degree of grace, I will probably
rebuild my WSH box using Windows 8.


What happens if YOU allocate each drive a letter.

Storage Spaces: What Happens With Drive Fails?
 

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Suppose I set up a Storage Space with a dozen drives and dual redundancy
(i.e. up to 2 drives can fail concurrently without data being lost).

Now let's say that one of the 12 drives fails.

What will Windows 8 tell me that will enable me to locate the drive?


I am coming from Windows Home Server where this is an issue: drive
fails, all WSH tells me is the make/model.

If Windows 8 can handle this with some degree of grace, I will probably
rebuild my WSH box using Windows 8.

There is a review here.

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...when-it-works/

Paul

Storage Spaces: What Happens With Drive Fails?
 

Per Joe:


What happens if YOU allocate each drive a letter.

Wow!.... I didn't know that was even possible.

I just got done assigning a drive letter to each drive.

Now I need to document which physical drive has which letter.
I had tried that with disk numbers (DISK 0, DISK 1)... but they seem to
be a moving target each time the system boots up with a different number
of drives.

Once the drive letter-physical drive association is in place, a drive
failure should make one of the letters go away and I should be able to
go right to the physical drive.

Thanks for pointing out something I never, ever would have come up with
on my own.
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Pete Cresswell