Comments on: Windows 8 and software RAID https://blog.division-m.com/2012/09/08/windows-8-and-software-raid/ Thoughts on all things computeresk Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.8 By: Matthew Sawyer https://blog.division-m.com/2012/09/08/windows-8-and-software-raid/#comment-2 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:47:26 +0000 http://blog.division-m.com/?p=7#comment-2 Drive Bender beats Storage Spaces hands-down. I tried Storage Spaces for awhile, even though I have two licenses for DB. Storage Spaces just leaves me feeling like something’s missing.

And when I think of it, yes, something is missing. Performance under Storage Spaces is slower than DB. And Storage Spaces most annoying feature is that if you ever detach a pool, and move it to a different server–or even reattach it back to the same server, it never automatically reattaches after a reboot!

That means each time the machine is rebooted, I have to manually reattach the pooled drive.

Overall I think Storage Spaces was a good first try. I had hoped to see improvements in Server 2012 R2, but the performance is still slower than DB and I still have to manually reattach pools after reboots.

Looking forward to Drive Bender v2!

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