Windows 10 Storage Spaces: Questions

[Zarathustra[H]]

hey all,

Could use a simple ZFS-like software RAID for Windows, and was thinking of giving storage spaces a try.

before I go spending hours backing up, wiping and reconfiguration my drives, I was hoping to get some input as to how well it works.

Here's what I want to do.

I have a single 256GB SSD and two 3TB WD Greens in my desktop.

I already have a separate 48TB NAS, this is just for local stuff.

My SSD is split into two equal partitions of 128GB, one boots Windows 10, the other boots Linux.

On the Linux side I currently use ZFS on Linux (ZoL) to do a mirror of the two WD Green Drives for local backups and transfers. (I also keep the OS backup Image of my NAS on this mirror)

What I'd like to do is use some of the space on these drives for Windows too, but windows does not have a working mature ZFS implementation.

Here is my planned state:

WD greens: Partition each WD green with two partitions. A small 64GB partition in the beginning of each drive, and a large partition using the rest of the space.

The large partitions will be mirrored using ZFS, and only used from Linux.

The Small partitions will be for Windows, and will be striped (more interested in performance than redundancy for these) using Storage Spaces Simple Volume.

So my questions are:

1.) Can I do this? I know ZFS allows me to perform RAID-like functions at the partition level. Does Storage Spaces do the same?

2.) What is the performance like? I'm mostly interested in sequential reads, as this is what the Windows Stripe will mostly be doing. Will I see a significant improvement in performance using two striped drives using storage spaces compared to just a single drive?

3.) Is there a better way to do what I want to do?

Much obliged,
Matt

 

[kac77]

Hmm before I got rid of the dual booting I was using a RAID card (don't need it now). This prevented me from having a crazy partitioning scheme. Before I got it I was constantly having to remember where things were. it was really annoying. I have a cheap one to sell now or you can go on ebay. PM me if you want it.

 

[bigdogchris]

You don't add a volume to a storage pool you add a drive. Windows will add a storage space driver to manage the disk which then acts like a separate disk in Disk Management. So, no, I don't think you can use a drive as storage space in Windows then as ZFS on Linux.

Of course, you could use Windows software raid in disk management to stripe the volumes. You don't need a storage pool to do that. I don't know if you could use ZFS on the remaining space or not.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

Of course, you could use Windows software raid in disk management to stripe the volumes. You don't need a storage pool to do that. I don't know if you could use ZFS on the remaining space or not.

Ah cool . I will try this Thank you!