Well, now its not shrinking the space -it allows to re-use the place where the unused data blocks are stored. It means that .spdata-file size should not increase after iSCSI drive format (because of re-use unused data blocks in it - all blocks became unsed after drive fromat). Am I right? But .spda...

You mean that if I will restart service, new log will be started and deleted data will not be deleted from .spdata-file because it was loged in old log (.spmetadata file will be overwritten by a new one). Am I right? But here is the thing: all manipulations with my drive I did without restarting. By...

Yeah, but the problem is that I didn't restart service after deletion. But OK, I'll wait for a fix

Any suggestions? Should I set block size manually to lower/higher value?

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Yes, of course, I created disk with deletion support : Storage path : My Computer\D\dedup.spdata Metadata path : Metadata\D\dedup.spmetadata Deletion support : Yes Deduplication block size : Auto Storage size in MB : 2048 Create replica : No Device Cache mode : wb Device Cache size in MB : 128 and I...

OK. Thanks!

Extra question:
I found that my deduplicated data request more disk space than it requested before copying to deduplicated iSCSI (I mean *.spdata file). Is it OK?
Seems like deletion is not working properly

Hi! Today I found StarWind iSCSI SAN Free Edition and it seems really nice but I'd like to ask: 1. Is it possible to install Management Console to laptop/desktop to manage servers with StarWind iSCSI SAN Free Edition? (Free licensed for 2 PC already used for servers) 2. Deduplication. Is it turned o...