Hey,

Thinking of moving to Windows and ReFS from Arch/ZFS but last time I used Windows Storage Spaces on Win10 the write performance would be fast for a few seconds then drop to 0, then fast and drop to 0. I’ve read online about columns and interleave alignment and disabling cache, but I was wondering if someone could help me out on how to set it up for fast writes preferably Raid5 on 6 Disks.

Thanks,

Jake

  • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Honestly, with Storage Spaces you won’t get any performance, as well as, reliability. First of all, parity option with storage spaces will lose your data, unless you have reliable backups.

    You can try to go with stablebit drivepool + snapraid and check the performance, at least it is simply more reliable. Otherwise, to get a decent performance use hardware RAID or linux mdadm.