Recent content by ethanwa

I got some M1015 cards.... where can I get a Windows 7 driver for it???

What about getting a single card that can do it all, like this PCIe 16x card with 6 Mini SAS ports? http://www.provantage.com/highpoint-technologies-rocketraid2760a~7HPTI03W.htm Sure, it's more expensive, but it simplifies the system by only taking up one slot. It's only $100 more than the...

Supermicro with an i3 is exactly what I have. :) Other people have noted the same problem with three of those cards I have as well. Just looking for something that plays nice and fits onto fewer cards.

Need a setup that can have 29 drives attached... what do you recommend? Here is what I have in terms of software: Running Windows 7 with software FlexRAID. No need for hardware RAID for the setup that I am doing. Here is what I have in terms of hardware: Norco RPC-4224 case...

I think 2.0 Beta does have a "real time" configuration in it. I only need snapshot anyway as I'll only be changing my data once a week. I'll just have the parity snapshot run nightly.

Yeah this makes no sense: Also, I didn't realize Flexraid ran in Windows. How are the speeds with a parity configuration? How is it superior?

This will be included in the final version of Windows 8, I can almost guarantee that. In fact the MSDN blog post shows a screenshot of the notification in the system tray. I never got one either when my disks became full, so I'm assuming it's a bug.

To replace a drive you need to replace it with something of equal or greater value, unless you know you have enough free space on your other drives to cover the difference. The only options that I know you will be able to change once a Space has been created is that you supposedly will be...

Maybe I missed it, but can you specify where the journal is located with PowerShell?

ChrisBenn - I've noticed no slow down or lag, and I too question how the rebalancing works. I'm assuming it's all hidden from us and just taken care of by the OS. When we want to write something new, the OS will rebalance at the time, or maybe when the system is idle it will do rebalancing...

Here is how I understand it; It stores the the two half-"slabs" (mirror of data, original data) across two different disks. It doesn't matter which ones, just as long as they are not on the same disk. Windows manages the redundancy behind the scenes. No two half-slabs are on the same disk. But...

You don't need to add two drives at a time for 2-Way Mirror with Storage Spaces. You just need two to start, and then add extra drives as needed. I'm at 5 drives right now and it works like a champ. My only complaint is that the write speeds are still pretty slow (even though they are 100%...

I am using a few 3TB Western Digital 5400RPM drives... on a 2-way mirror I am getting 30-40MB/s write speeds. Parity is about 15-20MB/s write speeds. God awful slow. When they are standalone I get 90MB/s write. Is it just my hard drives for the slow writes? It's killing me because I'd love to...