psykix

Thanks for the reply. I don't want to go 1:1 mirror, because quite simply the data that's on the drives is not valuable enough to invest in another 3 drives (which is what it would require) plus the controller and external enclosure that would require! I've come around to thinking that I can afford to lose a drive if it happens - hopefully scanner will give me at least some preemptive warning, but if not it's not a huge problem. I'm still copying data off on to a multitude of smaller drives so that I can break up the Storage Spaces pool! The scanner already picked up 173 errors on one of those drives which I suspected was a bit flaky, so a good omen so far :-) I can use folder level duplication presumably for say photos and home movies, plus they are also in OneDrive so I'd be covered on multiple bases there - that stuff I cannot afford to lose! The rest of the data is media, so whilst I would be inconvenienced if I lost it, it is actually recoverable with a little time and effort. Cheers! Thinking about it, I think if I lost a drive, I could get the missing files info from Plex so again, not too big a problem.

I'm about to give this a whirl for the 30 day trial, but have a few questions which I also asked on the Homeservershow forum. I'm currently using Windows 2012 R2 Essentials. Which version should I be downloading? Just the normal one? At the moment I have 4x4Tb drives in a Storage Space with parity. I've come to the conclusion that I can probably run with no parity since all that is on the drives is media for Plex, and hopefully the Drivepool Scanner will give me fair warning about impending doom! I do have Photos/Home Videos, but they are also backed up into OneDrive. I have OneDrive Personal and also a OneDrive for Business account. At the moment, my iPhone backs up to my OneDrive personal storage because the personal app integrates nicely with the iphone and auto uploads the photos as they are taken. I'm not sure if your cloud product could offer me something to integrate with all that or not? None of the drives in the Storage Space are reporting SMART info, and I'm not sure if that's because of Storage Spaces or not at the moment until I get all the data off and break it up into individual drives again. I'm running a Gen8 Microserver and using the onboard B120i controller with each drive configured as a separate RAID 0 array (to ensure that I don't get the fan speed problems associated with running AHCI). I think that's all my questions for now! Apologies! Cheers :-) Oh, I did have one more question! If I lose a drive, is there any way to work out what was on it?