Recent content by Roger Ewing

This is not a server serving files to a bunch of users. For the most part, it is a media server, holding movies, music etc. I do keep some personal files, but the overall speed for accessing those is not an issue. Raid 5 gives redundancy with less cost in disk space. Given what I'm storing and...

Not so sure.. Storage spaces do not implement via the hardward. My MB does support raid, but I"m not really doing hardware based raid. BUT...maybe the hardware based raid via controllers, etc, is what is required to do what I want. I'm wondering if maybe I can do something with dynamic volumes...

Setting up a Win 10 PC for shares, videos, which will be used lightly. I would like to have it sleep, and not have to do a separate operation to wake it with a magic packet before accessing. Is this possible? Any suggestions appreciated.

An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...