I installed 8 x 2Tb drives. 4 of them are internal and 4 are in an external enclosure that connects to the motherboard with a single Sata cable (I know that is not optimum for performance, but performance is not so much of an issue here. It's more of a frequently accessed achieve that a busy transactional system). For each drive I selected it and did Add Mirror. So I have 4 pairs of drives. Each with its own drive letter.
It was working well until I rebooted and then it all fell to pieces (see the screenshot below). I Googled this and it said I had to right click on the Dynamic Foreign disks and tell it to import. I did this and sure enough the mirrors resynced (it took about 24 hours) and drives remounted and I could see the files in them just fine.
So just for fun, I did another reboot it did exactly the same thing again.
Any ideas how I stop this?
Before you ask why dont you just use Storage Spaces? I was tempted, but did not do it because I was worried if something went wrong I would not be able to recover the data. If I keep it to a simple NTFS setup I can always plug the drive into another machine and read them (even if it means using recovery software, they all know how to read NTFS, Storage Spaces less so).
OK, plan B. I did put a nice screenshot in here, but this software said I cannot include images until my account has been verified, but then did not give me a way to verify. So until I figure that out, here is a rough description. Looking at disk management I see lots of disks that say Dynamic Foreign and Dynamic Missing