Softraid windows 10 software#
Softraid windows 10 Pc#

Setting up the RAID 10 was quick and simple, just set up 2 two-may mirrors in Storage Spaces (RAID 1), and then stripe the two mirrors together using Disk Management (RAID 0) to make the RAID 10.īefore setup, I ran some fairly basic testing and a CrystalDisk benchmark on all drives before starting the process, to get a baseline.

Softraid windows 10 software#

So, as above, there seems to be no information on what a RAID 10 is like on Windows, especially a software RAID, which is what I did So I thought I'd share my results and experience.

Softraid windows 10 Pc#

My setup for this is a PC running as a central storage unit for my home, so it's not running anything spectacular, just some parts I had lying around:Ĥx WD Red 2TB NAS 5400RPM drives (This is what I RAIDed) This post is pretty much my test results, and performance. So, I was looking, and couldn't find any information on people's experience, or results of any kind of RAID 10 adventure on Windows, so, decided I'd do it myself. Skip to the end for the RAID 10 numbers and results!

TL DR: Software RAID 10 in Windows works about as expected, in my experience. Obviously I need to do some reading into some documentation for Storages Spaces. To find out what you need to use, run the Get-StorageSubSystem command. Note that instead of 'Storage Spaces*' I had to use 'Windows Storage*'. To do this through PowerShell, I found this guide here. This again, is likely a contributing factor to the speed increases. Gone from ~2 seconds of response time, down to around a quarter of it, even slightly faster than the per-disk response times. This is significantly quicker than the hybrid solution I first used, with an increase on the average of 19%! As well as the speed bump, the fluctuations in speed are much less drastic.Īgain, much better than the hybrid solution, clocking around ~3 seconds faster for writes and ~2 seconds faster for reads, likely attributed to the decrease in speed fluctuations. In this benchmark, we see scores which are roughly equal to the Storage Spaces + Disk Management Hybrid RAID10, but 4KiB Q8T8 and 4KiB Q32T1 did actually come out worse for Reads. In what may be needless to say, performance is a lot better. This is still a RAID 10, so 2 two-way mirrors, but the -NumberOfColumns is set to 2 (a stripe per RAID 1 array). In light of what Wizardy suggested, I deleted the RAID10 volume, and did the whole thing again but through Powershell, including the striping.