Microsoft vs raid

Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. Nothing is safer than Raid 1! Wow, the reads are still good, but boy does the writes take a huge faceplant. Writes were roughly half of the write speed for a single drive, which was surprisingly bad, in my opinion. Functionally, this makes sense, as the OS has to track syncing writes to two different disks.

Who knew that it would levy such a heavy penalty though. While the Intel raid controller blows the Software Raid out of the water on sequential reads, surprisingly the Windows software Raid was better in nearly every other respect. If not, Windows looks to be good enough, and takes the lead in most categories. Raid 5 was the defacto standard for parity across volumes smaller than a TB. With Raid-5, you lose the space of one drive. With that being said, you can get some beefy performance, and have parity!

Previously, there was no way for end user running home or PRO Windows to do make a parity volume, which reserved that feature for Windows Server users only. You can configure this any way you want to! Just spend a LOT of time reading documentation. Raid-5 by any other name. Double Parity would be Raid! On the View menu, point to Bottom , and then click Graphical View. The Disk Description pane which is displayed in gray is positioned on the left side of the volume description, which is displayed in color.

The disk description contains information about each disk's disk number, whether it's a basic or dynamic configuration, its size, and its status online or offline. The volume descriptions are color-coded. They hold information about each volume, such as the drive letter if assigned , whether the volume is allocated or unallocated, the partition or volume size, and the health status of the volume.

If the disks that are going to be involved in the striped volume are already dynamic disks, proceed to the "How to Convert to Striped Volume" section of this article. You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. In this scenario, there are two disks on the computer, Disk 0 and Disk 1. Both disks are dynamic disks and have at least 1 gigabyte GB of free unallocated space on each disk for a total volume of 2 GB.

In the lower-right pane of the Disk Management tool, right-click the free, unallocated volume space on either disk, and then click Create Volume. In the left pane under Select Two or More Disks , a list is displayed that contains all disks that have enough free, unallocated space to participate in the striped volume. I changed the hyper-v scheduler type, disable hyper threadding, killed C states, set VMs to a single core, disabled dynamic RAM, and a dozen other things.

I created a mirror pool and while they run like garbage, they did boot. Being the disks were from , I thought it might just be time to replace them. Despite it not seeming like the disks, I went from 7. Starting 2 single core VMs with mb of ram takes down my parity space of locking up for 20 minutes. I have seen one workaround if your system is connected to a UPS and your willing to take the risk. But if your device ever does suffer a hard off pwr failure you risk losing everything and corrupting the drive.

Mileage varies. I have exactly the same issue. I noticed immediately that the performance was in the toilet despite 6 years newer hardware apart from the drives. I wait about 2 minutes as it seems to scream for about 20 seconds then fall off a cliff.

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