Windows 10: Is there currently a working path for software raid volumes in Windows 10?

Hi,


I previously had a windows storage spaces drive with 9 disks that I used with my collection of spinning disks. After updating to 2004 my storage spaces got ruined due tothis bug. So I destroyed that, and then further discovered that windows storage spaces isnot functional at all due to no longer being able to create disk pools


So I figured fine, I have hardware raid controllers, I'll just go back to using those because it doesn't seem like a good idea to trust windows to do any striping. So created 2 raid 0's with 4 disks each in my bios. Windows recognizes those just fine. And then I used disk manager to mirror the 2 volumes as a software raid 1. That seemed to be working great, and after about 4 days of restoring from my backup system I have all my data back.


The problem now is that after about 24 hours of uptime, windows explorer completely locks up and requires a hard reboot of the machine when I try to access the software volume. This exact configuration with this exact same hardware worked fine a couple years ago.

So to recap:

* Storage space parity is broken

* Creating storage spaces pools is broken

* disk manager raid 1 is broken

* I haven't tried disk manager raid 0 yet


Is there anything I'm missing? Are software raids completely unsupported now?


At this point I honestly don't want to invest the time in trying to set up a software raid 0 and restoring all my backups again just to run into one more failure. I'm probably just going to fall back to using 2 separate hardware raid 0's and running a nightly synchronization script between the two to handle immediate drive failures.


please help :-

:)

 

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