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Hello, I got 9* 8tb disks today in the mail. And was wondering how I should add them to my existing system. I currently have 5* 2tb drives in a storage pool with a ReFS volume. What would be the best way to include the new disks? Merging them into the current pool? Making a new pool and adding...

I have a standalone server (2019 Datacenter) with 6 SAS HDD disks (4x 6TB, 2x 8TB) and 4 NVMe disks (4x 1TB) => we are NOT in a storage spaces direct (S2D) scenario. All disks are in 1 storage pool, in which I created a 2-way mirrored performance tier (NVMe) and a 2-way mirrored capacity tier...

I'm planning on getting some new drives soon, and after checking what I have I found out I need a new HBA. My current card is a "HP SAS 3801E" (Only sas1, so max 2tb drives) and the one I'm looking to upgrade to is a "LSI SAS9207-8E" (seems to be the card people recommend for sas2?) My current...

Oh gosh, so I wrote this down despite telling myself not to waste any space in the forum. But I could not get a clear anwser from the world-wide-web or searching trough the forum. I have a hw raid w/bbu & flash backup + APC. The hw-r controller supports "data consistency check" and 15x8tb=96tb...