Since my last post below, I have had quite some time to work with Storage Spaces and ReFS along side of more traditional hardware RAID. I’ve gotten some good perspective on the technology now after having used it and the “old stuff” side by side through good and bad things. In the defense of good, old...

It seems that when you begin using Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces and new disks, you get to play with the underlying fabric of reality. Well, that’s what it seems like. Blank disks are called “Primordial” in this console. I find it very funny, but appropriate as well. For...