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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. -- Pete Cresswell |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. -- Pete Cresswell |
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