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Anyone tried playing around with this yet? So far I am truly impressed with it...
Starting with Win XP I always had a boot drive and a pair of 1Tb drives mirrored in Windows, not at the MB/Bios level. Performance was always acceptable and I never had any issues with missing data. The only "problem" was whenever the computer blue screened or otherwise had to be hard reset for some reason. The mirror would take *hours* to rebuild. I think it literally went bit by bit and had to verify the entire drive(s).
So now I have Win 8 and decided to rebuild the mirror with Storage Spaces. Totally different structure of storing files and verifying data integrity. It divides the storage space into "slabs" and can quickly compare them between the disks. I have a simple two-way mirror against the drives and when I simulate a failure/recovery scenario it verifies and rebuilds in 2 minutes.
You get a warning icon in the taskbar when something happens...the old style mirror never gave you anything showing something went wrong.
I also am trying it out on my Win 2012 server, but the controls for it are almost too complicated/convoluted. The dumbed down version for Win 8 is actually much better.
Starting with Win XP I always had a boot drive and a pair of 1Tb drives mirrored in Windows, not at the MB/Bios level. Performance was always acceptable and I never had any issues with missing data. The only "problem" was whenever the computer blue screened or otherwise had to be hard reset for some reason. The mirror would take *hours* to rebuild. I think it literally went bit by bit and had to verify the entire drive(s).
So now I have Win 8 and decided to rebuild the mirror with Storage Spaces. Totally different structure of storing files and verifying data integrity. It divides the storage space into "slabs" and can quickly compare them between the disks. I have a simple two-way mirror against the drives and when I simulate a failure/recovery scenario it verifies and rebuilds in 2 minutes.
You get a warning icon in the taskbar when something happens...the old style mirror never gave you anything showing something went wrong.
I also am trying it out on my Win 2012 server, but the controls for it are almost too complicated/convoluted. The dumbed down version for Win 8 is actually much better.