Soft raid vs softraid lite update#
Soft raid vs softraid lite windows 10#

I'm pretty pleased with it and it is a great improvement compared to the Windows 10 software RAID solutions.

Performance isn't quite as good as many on board SATA controllers but, in my view, more than adequate for spinning disk NAS storage.It makes disks attached to it invisible to disk tools like CrystalDisk Info.The instructions are poor, incomplete and not kept up to date.

Soft raid vs softraid lite update#

It should be more reliable than Windows Storage Spaces which got broken by a recent Widows 10 update and is otherwise reported as being pretty unreliable, as well as difficult to recover from disk failure.It looks pretty straight forward to rebuild the array when a disk fails, but I haven't tried to do that yet.The Marvell Storage Utility is web based and can be accessed from any machine on the same network to check system health and configuration.On my machine Win 10 resync takes about nine days during which time the array is effectively in an indeterminate state. Again, this is in contrast to Windows 10 RAID 1 which usually needs to resync after the machine is shutdown and restarted. It is stable and the RAID stays synchronised through reboots and power cycles.This is in contrast to Windows 10 RAID 1 which remains completely silent if a disk fails in the array. Works well and notifies you (by email, if configured) when the array is degraded.Startech is an ISO 9001 certified company so the quality should be good. I bought a Startech PEXSAT34RH PCI-e RAID controller for less than £40, on Ebay, for an unused 'open box' item. In the end I decided to go for the hardware RAID solution. Now to the questions, as I said I'm using Windows 10 RAID 1 with the drives configured as dynamic disks, would it actually be better to be using Windows 'Storage Spaces' instead? Or, perhaps, it would be better again to buy one of these (available for ~£65 from most suppliers) and configure a relatively inexpensive hardware RAID 1? They got there in the end, but it is a bit disconcerting that it takes so long and I'm not sure what the status would be if there was a drive failure while the drives were resyncing. Now here is the problem, if indeed it is a problem, having moved the PC/NAS the two drives have taken the best part of a week to resync. Well, with the cold weather I have decided to bring the PC/NAS into the main house as the hard drives were often running too cold. The NAS side of things has 2x4TB WD Reds running in RAID 1 configuration with backup to a separate machine on the network. As people here may (or may not) recall, earlier in the year, I re-purposed a low energy consumption PC to be a combined PC, for use in the garage and a NAS for data storage/media server.