I am starting to build up a new storage server. This is my "gen 4" box and I want to stay with a Windows OS for server side app reasons.
I've been testing Drive pool the last couple of weeks and so far no issues. Removing drives, adding drives, testing redundancy, rebalancing all work. The included scanner seems to be OK (tested with known bad drive) and so far no stability issues.
I'll be running about 50TB this time and really want to get it right. My data is copying over as I write this with about 36 hours yet to go. My only open questions are (a) do people have any known concerns with either Stable bit Drivepool, the same vendor's scanner or my OS (WSE 2012 R2) and (b) any suggestions on last minute failure testing or recovery scenarios to try out before I actually cut over 20TB of data?
I've been testing Drive pool the last couple of weeks and so far no issues. Removing drives, adding drives, testing redundancy, rebalancing all work. The included scanner seems to be OK (tested with known bad drive) and so far no stability issues.
I'll be running about 50TB this time and really want to get it right. My data is copying over as I write this with about 36 hours yet to go. My only open questions are (a) do people have any known concerns with either Stable bit Drivepool, the same vendor's scanner or my OS (WSE 2012 R2) and (b) any suggestions on last minute failure testing or recovery scenarios to try out before I actually cut over 20TB of data?