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  1. Hi, I posted this question about 10 days back on hss forum but was told I may get a response here. I have edited it a little. Thank you for reading my message. I am currently running an evaluation version of server 2012 r2 essentials on a dell T20 and have three drives for data (1 , 2 and 4 TB) and an SSD with the OS on it. Total storage is about 0.84TB (mirrored 2 way) but unevenly spread between the initial 1 TB drive (came with server) and the later added drives. Storage spaces doesnt apparently rebalance and the data in storage spaces is not readable in other windows computers; as in if the server were to crash, I could not just attach the drive by usb/sata to another windows PC and read the data. As a result i am looking into drivepool. I was google searching for a built in technique to migrate from storage spaces to drivepool and saw one mention about copying files over but wanted to confirm. Since posting this message, I found that it is not easy to remove a drive from SS either. Googling it suggests using powershell to retire a disk, repair the virtual disk and then extract. Complicating matters, storage spaces is now reporting low hard drive space despite having a total of 4+2+1 TB (so atleast 3.5TB duplicated) in the dell t20 storage spaces while i only have 0.84 TB of data in total!! Doubling that should be 1.68 TB (as reported by file explorer). Essentials dashboard claims i am using 4.27 of 6.36 TB space! 1. In any case, my current plan is physically remove the 1 TB drive using powershell or just manually pull it out, then add a new 4T drive in its place and assign it to drivepool. I will then copy the client backup folders and photos, videos etc to this new drive from the other drives. Is this the best way? And can i just drag them using file explorer or does one have to use the essentials dashboard to reassign folder location? Then i will delete the storage space and reclaim the remaining two drives (2 and 4t) and add them to drivepool to permit mirroring. 2. Alternatively, I can delete storage spaces completely (though that option worries me even though i have been backing up the server!!), then use veeam that has been backing up daily the server and hopefully extract the client backups and video, photo shared folders from it to the new drivepool. Pleas advice me if these are the best options or if there is an easier way around. thank you.
  2. I am now running Storage Spaces on WHS 2012 R2 (1 way mirror with tiered storage). Drivescanner is unable to see the component discs that make up the storage space (14 individual drives). I have tried the Win7 and Windows Home Server 2011 versions of the software. 1. Is there a way to fix it so I can once again see the the health states of individual discs? 2. If this is not possible is it a feature that is coming in the future? Thanks.
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