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Hey gang,
I just purchased a 4TB internal drive to add because my current 2TB was full.
I'm debating whether to just install the 4TB as a regular setup using another drive letter OR to use the Windows 8 feature called Storage Spaces. Are any of you using Storage Spaces, if so, please let me know your configuration...(its like the modern version of RAID).
If I understand correctly, this would allow me to have 3TB of Virtual Disk space set-up as 2-way mirror, HOWEVER, given that one of the drive is only 2TB, if my 4TB drive fails (and assuming it contains more than 2TB of data at that point), only 2TB will be "safely" stored by the mirror, because thats the max available on the smaller drive. Which makes me think now that my idea of using Storage Spaces may not be the best idea... as I'd actually be "losing" the additional 2TB that I paid for when I bought my 4TB drive. Perhaps a better solution is to install them as regular separate drives, and just back them up each externally...
Buying a drive almost requires buying 2 additional drives nowadays. One for onsite-backup, and another for offsite backup.
Thoughts from the Windows users?
I just purchased a 4TB internal drive to add because my current 2TB was full.
I'm debating whether to just install the 4TB as a regular setup using another drive letter OR to use the Windows 8 feature called Storage Spaces. Are any of you using Storage Spaces, if so, please let me know your configuration...(its like the modern version of RAID).
If I understand correctly, this would allow me to have 3TB of Virtual Disk space set-up as 2-way mirror, HOWEVER, given that one of the drive is only 2TB, if my 4TB drive fails (and assuming it contains more than 2TB of data at that point), only 2TB will be "safely" stored by the mirror, because thats the max available on the smaller drive. Which makes me think now that my idea of using Storage Spaces may not be the best idea... as I'd actually be "losing" the additional 2TB that I paid for when I bought my 4TB drive. Perhaps a better solution is to install them as regular separate drives, and just back them up each externally...
Buying a drive almost requires buying 2 additional drives nowadays. One for onsite-backup, and another for offsite backup.
Thoughts from the Windows users?
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- Win 8 64-bit