nightelfmaster
Limp Gawd
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- Mar 28, 2004
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I'm considering building a system to hold a number of drives. I'm on a budget, so I would prefer if it were easily expandable in the future, while still providing redundancy. So far, the only systems that I know of that can manage mirroring/parity on varying size drives are integrated solutions such as Drobo and Synology, and some application solutions such as unraid. However, with Windows 8, there looks to be a really nice way to manage these drives, namely storage spaces (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/...rage-for-scale-resiliency-and-efficiency.aspx).
Has anyone had experience in setting up WIndows 8 Storage Spaces? I'm curious as to how to how it fares in handling data and ease of use. I'm considering setting up a system running the Win8 RP to manage this. Any thoughts on this solution or is there a nice solution like FreeNAS specifically designed to do this?
Has anyone had experience in setting up WIndows 8 Storage Spaces? I'm curious as to how to how it fares in handling data and ease of use. I'm considering setting up a system running the Win8 RP to manage this. Any thoughts on this solution or is there a nice solution like FreeNAS specifically designed to do this?