Storage Spaces - Certainly not using parity lol, simple or mirror are the only ways that I see them being truly usable. I'm looking at speeding up the current version of StarWind, do you think that software like Velobit will help with the current version? If not, I might still purchase Velobit to in...

1. Ahh so the writes are to RAM/WB cache, then with the new setup to SSD, then rolled to spinning disk if not read back for a bit. 2. I know you did not, but http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-free-features talks of Global Dedupe often. I might move this into another topic to clarify deduplica...

To make it easier to discuss, I'm going to label items. 1. I understand that I will be able to cache via SSD, but the random writes from a VDI scenario are still being performed on disks that are not optimized for random data. I agree that Starwind is very friendly towards RAID6, but would be more f...

If I'm reading the following link correctly, it looks like you guys are using a method that turns the disk presented as LUNs into something like a database, basically logs are written to and then flushed to the img file. http://www.starwindsoftware.com/log-structured-file-system-sdk#lsfs If possible...