Hi everybody, I'm considering using Windows 8 "storage spaces" to combine two external disks with 2-way mirroring. What will happen if, for some reason, my OS disk is no longer available. How will a fresh installation of Windows 8 react to an existing storage space? Will it automatically recognise the storage space or does the storage space configuration rely on state stored on the OS disk?

Thank you!

Daniele

More on this topic is here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-configure-storage-spaces-windows-8/

Regards

Milos

Hi,

This article may also helpful to you:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11382.storage-spaces-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspx

Hope that helps.

Leo Huang,

This question has certainly not been answered.  The links that have been provided do NOT address the question that the OP was asking.

I've got a small 6TB storage spaces array; I'm about to remove Windows Server 2012 R2 and install Windows 8.1 - because the Kinect 2 doesn't work on the current OS.

Setting up Storage Spaces is one thing; Changing the OS when you have 4TB of data is completely different ball game.

This question ought to be left open until it is answered accurately.  You should know that.

Regards,

Matt.

Hi,

I have read all the linked article as I was interested about this question, and have found the some answers:

What happens to Storage Spaces when moving physical disks between servers?

Storage Spaces records information about pools and storage spaces on the physical disks that compose the storage pool. Therefore, your pool and storage spaces are preserved when you move an entire storage pool and its physical disks from one computer to another.

Windows Server 2012 starts storage that could potentially be shared with a cluster in a safe state. For Storage Spaces, that means the first time Windows connects to a storage pool, the pool starts as read-only and the storage spaces will start in a detached state. To access your data, you must set the storage pool to read-write and then attach the storage spaces.

These steps do not apply to Windows 8 storage pools start as read-write and storage spaces start as attached.

best of luck,

Mark

• Proposed as answer by Mark Bannister 18 hours 22 minutes ago
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