I've had this running as a media server for months without issues. It contains 4 5tb hard drives and uses Windows drive spanning. Today, during a copy operation, one of the drives vanished. gone completely. Not visible in either Windows or HD Sentinel. I removed the drive and put it in a usb drive bay connected to another computer and it showed as "invalid" in Disk Management. I deleted the partition then recreated it and after a long format the drive is healthy and HD Sentinel reports it as perfect with no errors.
At this point I'm sorry I trusted Windows drive spanning with my data. I didn't lose anything as it's all on another server also but still, it's a major inconvenience. If it was a legitimate problem with the HD, wouldn't something show in S.M.A.R.T. ? also HD sentinel in notorious for showing problems that other diag programs don't. This is why I think it's strictly a Windows brain fart. I'll do more testing tomorrow. I'll switch to Drivepool when I load the media back on it.
At this point I'm sorry I trusted Windows drive spanning with my data. I didn't lose anything as it's all on another server also but still, it's a major inconvenience. If it was a legitimate problem with the HD, wouldn't something show in S.M.A.R.T. ? also HD sentinel in notorious for showing problems that other diag programs don't. This is why I think it's strictly a Windows brain fart. I'll do more testing tomorrow. I'll switch to Drivepool when I load the media back on it.