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[Z0001]

Hi there

I'm thinking of usng MC as server to the home on a PC that will use Windows 10 drive pooling  software Storage Spaces. I plan to also use this storage to store  my important documents (like a NAS).

Does anyone use Storage Spaces? Is it any good? Fast enough?

Thanks
Z

[Manfred]

I had a NAS and switched to a Win 10 Pro based server using Windows Storage Spaces having 46 TB NTFS formatted diskspace. I have my server 3.8 years now with no crash at all, it's always on. I never regred to move from my old NAS to a Windows Storage based architecture. I have all meta & media and personal data on it.

[Z0001]

Thanks for that - that's a pretty good endorsement!

Does it matter if your disks are different sizes in terms of the back up strategy? does Windows control the disk destination of where the data goes, or does the user dictate that?

Many thanks indeed
Z

[Manfred]

I have the following strategy:
- Centralized Automated File Backup to direct attached USB disks excluding BD, DVD movies & series rips,
- Backup for DVD & BD movies & series rips is DVD, BD
- DR: Static copy of full disks having BD, DVD movies & series rips, yearly copy of all other data to old disks stored in a different location

I don't use RAID 5 because my NAS was configured with RAID 5 and a disk failed and rebuild did not work even with vendor suppport. (I had a backup). So no data loss but a bunch of time for no result.