S15E42 - Soft Raid 5 - Microsoft Storage Spaces

Greetings my friends, this is Microsoft's version of a software RAID. ©2025

00:00 Start
00:31 Drink better coffee, shipped to your door. Available most US States.
00:43 Manage Storage Spaces
00:48 Create a storage pool (RAID function to come).
01:00 Drives available for the drive pool (i.e. unformatted).
01:13 Select the desired drives (tick the boxes by each drive).
01:17 Create the drive pool.
01:25 Select the type of soft RAID/MS Storage Space.
01:39 "Two way mirror" sounds like it might be RAID 1 (mirroring).
01:50 "Simple resiliency" sounds like it might be RAID 0 (striping).
02:07 "Parity" RAID 5 is striping across 2 or more drives
02:15 with parity (a drive or part of the stripe) that allows 1 drive to be replaced.
02:26 Always verify that the proposed drive pool is what you expect.
02:49 Example: a 5 2TB drive RAID 5 would be 5 -1 = 4 drives or ~8TB.
03:03 Create the RAID/array (previously we created the drive pool.)
03:14 Rename the array for convenience / preference.
03:38 The MS Storage Space is empty. We need to move the files in.
04:02 FreeFileSync can perform one-side master (mirroring).
04:12 Or bidirectional - make both drives exactly the same.
04:22 I will do a one-way (from the WD Blue SN5000 to the array.
04:33 I set the source and destination drives (one-way).
04:51 Then I activate the synchronization
05:01 from G:\ to I:\.
05:04 I will be asked to confirm.
05:12 I can exclude the rubbish bins and similar.
05:29 The process is nearing completion.
05:43 Seriously, you need to enjoy better coffee.
05:57 Thanks for watching.

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