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Is SMB safer than iSCSI for connection to a NAS?
Any online writable disk can be corrupted by a malicious software or user. Underestimating them by assuming they cannot find a file share is a mistake.
Last line of defense for important data is ...
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Is SMB safer than iSCSI for connection to a NAS?
Leaving the question of iSCSI vulnerability when using it without a clustered file system but with multiple initiators aside, I can hardly find any clear reason why file sharing protocol would be more ...
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ReFS with or without hardware RAID? With or without storage spaces?
ReFS by itself cannot repair corruptions, it is a feature of Storage Spaces. But ReFS will detect them when on files with data integrity stream enabled when reading the corrupted block, or when ReFS ...
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Corrupt (?) ReFS causing blue screen when drive is mounted
Re-format your "orphan" volume as NTFS, recover your data from backup and ditch ReFS from production for another couple of years. When ReFS volumes get filled up to 60-80% they tend to lock up. If you ...
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Configuring Storage Spaces for NVMe caching of SSDs using powershell
Multiple things are wrong in this setup:
1) RAID controller is not supported for Storage Spaces. The fact that you can use it to create Storage Pool and Virtual Disk doesn't mean that it will be ...
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Is SMB safer than iSCSI for connection to a NAS?
Yes, any file-level network data access protocol is SAFER compared to the block (iSCSI, FC, FCoE etc) one due to inability to damage the volume with "network redirector", which is super-easy ...
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ReFS on Storage Spaces: Is Storage Tiering working? Windows Server 2019
Be aware of the fact tiering with ReFS + Windows Server 2019 works in a totally different way compared to NTFS + Windows Server 2016.
2016: All writes go to the flash tier with the data being ...
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ReFS on Storage Spaces: Is Storage Tiering working? Windows Server 2019
You can check it in the Performance Monitor. Add Physical disks Read and Write counters for your SSDs and HDDs. In this case, you will be able to see which Tier is being utilized by seeing which ...
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NTFS vhdx On REFS Mirrored Storage Spaces
VHDX file itself validates and maintains data integrity using checksums on top of the ReFS. If you would like to have such possibility for independent files, you need to format hard disk as ReFS ...
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ReFS to NTFS - How to reclaim space on drive?
I connected the drive to a different PC and was able to properly see what was going on via diskmgmt.msc. I have no idea why it was not displaying properly on the 1st PC. But I was able to resolve it.
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How does ReFS deduplication compare with ZFS deduplication?
See some test results here: https://trae.sk/view/26/ https://trae.sk/view/33/
TL;DR: it's pretty good for data that actually is duplicated AND compressible. It's not exactly advertized but anything ...
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Does the Windows Server 2019 ReFS implementation support compression?
ReFS does not support compression, but if you use deduplication on a ReFS volume, compression is used - at least according to this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-...
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ReFS can't be mounted any more
You can try to restore ReFS one time by using free software which is simply restoring the partition if no blocks were written. However, it can be a rare situation where nothing can help restoring ReFS ...
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How should I migrate a zfs pool to Windows Storage Spaces?
The only way to migrate from a given filesystem to a different one/different storage, regardless of the filesystem type is to physically copy all the files. ZFS is no exception from this rule.
There's ...
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Does the ReFS filesystem reserve space for itself?
12.73TB (14,000,512,296,960)... Microsoft is reporting 12.7Tib, Seagate sells 14TB drives, this is the same thing in different units. 14x10^12 = 12.73x2^40
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Microsoft Storage Spaces without ReFS
There isn't a clear answer here, as it depends on your requirements. Can you lose the data? How long can your PVR "server" be down while you repair NTFS offline?
ReFS has integrations with Storage ...
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