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Merry Holidays to all and to all a good night!
Well, I recently experienced a personal disaster/tragedy yesterday, my main 500 gig hard drive fully died. As in, the disk is at the point where it will spin up, click, and then spin down. No chances of data recovery without a load of dollars.
So that brings me to Storage Spaces. Unfortunately, I was planning on buying a 3 TB hard drive (will now be from Western Digital as I've recollected my personal experiences with Seagate drives and ALL have resulted in failure, an external hard drive of a friend's died in the same manner as mine, and it was a Seagate drive) to start doing backups of vital statistics. I can live on from Windows and program files dying, but documents, music, pictures, and over 300 gigs of video is too tasking on my poor soul.
I'm also in the initial phases of designing my new puter case, which I believe will house at least 12 hard drives, all will be utilized by Storage Spaces in Windows 8. Questions I do have!
I get that it's like a RAID 1 and 10 in ways, but I need some further clarification. You can specify whether to save two or three copies of your data. This is where I get lost.
Say, if I have a 120 gig SSD that I do backups of as well as my current 585 gigs worth of video content as well as other user data files. And I have 12 three TB hard drives going in Storage Spaces. I make the pool size to be 36 TB's as I do not choose to be deceived (more like I can't fit in more drives and don't want to do external). Is the total usable space in that pool 36 TBs physically? And if I copy over 705 gigs of data over to the pool, is that data mirrored on ALL drives twice if I choose to have two copies of data?
Can someone break this down for me, preferably with pictures and diagrams if possible.
Thanks!
Well, I recently experienced a personal disaster/tragedy yesterday, my main 500 gig hard drive fully died. As in, the disk is at the point where it will spin up, click, and then spin down. No chances of data recovery without a load of dollars.
So that brings me to Storage Spaces. Unfortunately, I was planning on buying a 3 TB hard drive (will now be from Western Digital as I've recollected my personal experiences with Seagate drives and ALL have resulted in failure, an external hard drive of a friend's died in the same manner as mine, and it was a Seagate drive) to start doing backups of vital statistics. I can live on from Windows and program files dying, but documents, music, pictures, and over 300 gigs of video is too tasking on my poor soul.
I'm also in the initial phases of designing my new puter case, which I believe will house at least 12 hard drives, all will be utilized by Storage Spaces in Windows 8. Questions I do have!
I get that it's like a RAID 1 and 10 in ways, but I need some further clarification. You can specify whether to save two or three copies of your data. This is where I get lost.
Say, if I have a 120 gig SSD that I do backups of as well as my current 585 gigs worth of video content as well as other user data files. And I have 12 three TB hard drives going in Storage Spaces. I make the pool size to be 36 TB's as I do not choose to be deceived (more like I can't fit in more drives and don't want to do external). Is the total usable space in that pool 36 TBs physically? And if I copy over 705 gigs of data over to the pool, is that data mirrored on ALL drives twice if I choose to have two copies of data?
Can someone break this down for me, preferably with pictures and diagrams if possible.
Thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS
- CPU
- AMD FX 8320
- Motherboard
- Crosshair V Formula-Z
- Memory
- 16 gig DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS R9 270
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB Seagate Barracuda (starting to hate Seagate)
x2 3 TB Toshibas
Windows 8.1 is installed on a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB
- PSU
- OCZ 500 watt
- Case
- A current work in progres as I'll be building the physical case myself. It shall be fantastic.
- Cooling
- Arctic Cooler with 3 heatpipes
- Keyboard
- Logitech K750 wireless solar powered keyboard
- Mouse
- Microsoft Touch Mouse
- Browser
- Internet Explorer 11
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender, but I might go back on KIS 2014