- #ADDING DISKS TO SOFTRAID UPDATE#
- #ADDING DISKS TO SOFTRAID SOFTWARE#
- #ADDING DISKS TO SOFTRAID WINDOWS#
When creating a Virtual Disk, you can specify number of columns only through PowerShell, and it is NOT changeable after you create VD! Adding a drive to the pool does not increase columns of VD. It is determined by the number of “columns” – a number of disks used in parallel (does not include disks for redundant copies of mirror, but for simple and parity includes all disks, even parity disk). If you add a same-speed drive, speed will not be faster. I got faster speed because I added a faster drive to the Pool. “Optimize-StoragePool” only spreads data evenly over disks, so new disk gets data too. UPDATE: Sadly, this myth seems true (thanks Dinko!). It adds speed too! But in server OS you will need to run Powershell command “ Optimize-StoragePool -FriendlyName ” to achive that.
#ADDING DISKS TO SOFTRAID WINDOWS#
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That means, it won’t work in most cases unless you combined all components very carefully.
#ADDING DISKS TO SOFTRAID UPDATE#
UPDATE : In practice, this card won’t work if your MB is not on it’s “supported” list, or your MB does not have “x16 = 4 devices x4” option, or your CPU/MB does not have enough free PCIe lanes. And you can have 4 such cards if motherboard permits, for total of 16 M2 disks:įilled with 2TB M2 drives, that would give you 16×2 = 32 TB of space with totally insane speed of 40 GB/s!!! In theory at least. One can use a PCIe card like this one, that measures 10 000 MB/s (yes, 10 GB per second – watch test here!) write and read speeds! Insane. If you need speed, today’s normal, affordable M2 drives reach 3200 MB/s and 500 000 IOPS easily, just one individual drive, eg. So just create a “simple” (striped, RAID0) virtual disk across all of drives and enjoy phenomenal increase in speed without losing capacity.
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#ADDING DISKS TO SOFTRAID SOFTWARE#
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Or from ugly downtime caused by a disk failure. That can save you from losing your data if you do not have a backup (you should have a backup). Or two failed disks if you choose three-way mirroring.
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Get resiliency to failure of a (one) disk.As multiple disks work in parallel for better resulting speed. Increase the speed of your local storage.For those having or planning to have at least 2 disks (plus OS drive) it can: Well, if you do not have Windows OS, and you have only 1 disk, then none. What benefits can Storage Spaces give me? Just not many people know about it and how big value can it bring to you. There is a hidden gem in Windows OS you can leverage for free. Whether you have a big database that needs speed, or other valuable data like documents or just personal pictures you do not want to lose when disk fails (disks DO fail without notice, just a matter of moment), you should read this post.