Any powershell wizards able to do better than me for determining how much of my dynamic volume is used up per physical drive? Looks like Iāll need to use DiskPart or some other utility, MS seems to have given up on dynamic disks. Yet another reason I should reconsider this path lol.
I canāt seem to find anything that will give me space available per drive, and itās quite possible I never will if the OS sees the spanned volume as fully allocated.
Disclaimer: havenāt tested this kind of setup. However, QLC seems like a perfect use case for Storj. The tricky thing for HDDs that storage nodes do are random reads, and QLC drives deal with them just fine. I think they should also be fine as a caching layer for storage nodes based on HDDs.
Unfortunately, Windows refuses to divulge the space used per physical drive no matter what utility I try. I think since Microsoft effectively gave up on dynamic drives in favor of storage spaces I just have to accept Iāll never know
To followup, Iām on day 2 of my dynamic NVMe span and no issues at all. Iām surprised how little drive activity there is on the SSD array vs. the old spinny HDD drive that was pegged at 90% utilization constantly. Iām sure Iāll get bored and screw something up in the future, but for now itās a great use of discount off-brand NVMes
I built a dashboard but sadly still no way to know how much space is used per drive. AtomicInternet Storj Status
Tell me about it! I try to wait for Bu King to go on sale - or sometimes Goldenfir has deal around the holidays. A couple of weeks ago my buddy got a smoking deal on MemoryGhost - but they sold out fast!
(ā¦but seriouslyā¦ some of these Amazon vendor names are just random lettersā¦)
Just a note: since itās all based on the controller letting the host know what the size is, the controller can simply lie and silently write data in a loop. The host sees 4TB transferred, while in reality the capacity is 1TB, just overwritten 4 times.
ābigā USBs/SD cards used to be that way as well.
Correct, as most of the ā1TBā thumb drives on Amazon do this.
I wrote out 4TB of Chia plots to the drive and then validated them to confirm this was actually holding 4TB of data. So at least for this drive, it has the fully addressable space advertised.
This span drive has been running great, until today my piece_expiration.db had corruption. So I followed the excellent āHow to fix a ādatabase disk image malformedāā article and thought Iād share disk utilization during heavy activity. This is during the DB rebuild phase. I was surprised none of the disks got over 40% utilization. What a strange beast Windows dynamic disk span is.