yes working properly without any issue

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender you have to have Dynamic Disks to do this in Windows using MS tools.

Sure, but you don't when using third party tools. Again, I haven't done it in 4+ years, so I don't know what Acronis can currently do.

@thecreativeone91 said:

The Box has the PCIE Slots. You put it in there. and connect the mac Mini Via thunderbolt. It also means you can add more Nics, etc.

Oh okay, interesting. Not bad then.

Are we going to be getting more of these?

It's not 100% perfect, but pretty good. Very low risk.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

If it's a cloud system why are you using RAID 10 with it?

I didn't build it.

Sure... Sure... Blame it on the other guys... If you can't fix it the easy way, at least you have a chance to redo it right. 🙂

Since you have that thread about testing out Vultr...

They don't explain it very well there but you can spin up a VM with OwnCloud already installed and ready to go.

It runs on CentOS 6, but still very handy!

@Breffni-Potter said:

Might be worth adding a media retention policy, I imagine you do the same for video which is far more expensive to store the raw, so add it for photography.

We don't have a written in stone policy, this kind of thing has to be flexible with the type of work, length and size of project. Generally for most clients it's gone within 30-90 days of final payment (which is when they get the deliverables). Broadcast TV stuff (not commercials) is usually kept a bit longer due to the nature of it.

Photoshoots are done in raw as well, and can easily be a few hundred gigs from one shoot.

It looks like it is trying to connect but it gives me two choices for a SSL cert when I do... then it give me an error. I will have to look into a bit more when I have time.

Overview

Storage Spaces Direct seamlessly integrates with the features you know today that make up the Windows Server software defined storage stack, including Scale-Out File Server, Clustered Shared Volume File System (CSVFS), Storage Spaces and Failover Clustering. Figure 4 below illustrates the “Storage Spaces Direct” stack:

this is the screenshot of my XP machine

Thanks!

@scottalanmiller said:

Three pods with RAIN

My servers would never forgive me for putting them in the RAIN... lol 😄

@scottalanmiller said:

This means that resilvers expected to fail when we look at the math model that only gives has an average (mean) failure rate we get successful resilver after success resilver. This also means that array expansion operations (replacing one drive at a time with a larger drive) would also be far more likely to be successful than expected based solely on the math averages.

And that's how my boss got away with it heheh (well so far)