I have raised a case with Microsoft support, but posting here to hopefully get a faster response (case raised almost a week ago!)
I have a Windows Server 2012 file server, 4 USB3 disks, 4TB each, brand new. Created a new storage pool for the disks, created a single virtual disk, parity redundancy, thick provisioned to consume all available space in the pool. New NTFS volume on top (entire disk).
Volume worked well for 4 weeks, went to create a new file share, system crashed, now volume is unavailable. I can see the drive letter, but accessing the drive causes the system to become unstable.
Some diagnostic information:
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-PhysicalDiskFriendlyName CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size
------------ ------- ----------------- ------------ ----- ----
PhysicalDisk3 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 3.64 TB
PhysicalDisk6 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 3.64 TB
PhysicalDisk5 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 3.64 TB
PhysicalDisk0 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 931.51 GB
PhysicalDisk1 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 2.73 TB
PhysicalDisk2 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.36 TB
PhysicalDisk4 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 3.64 TB
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-StoragePool
FriendlyName OperationalStatus HealthStatus IsPrimordial IsReadOnly
------------ ----------------- ------------ ------------ ----------
GLADOS-USB3-4TB OK Healthy False False
Primordial OK Healthy True False
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-VirtualDisk
FriendlyName ResiliencySettingNa OperationalStatus HealthStatus IsManualAttach Size
me
------------ ------------------- ----------------- ------------ -------------- ----
GLADOS-USB3-4TB-PAR Parity OK Healthy True 10.91 TB
PS C:\Users\Administrator>
As you can see, everything looks very good, but try as you might, you just cannot read the NTFS file system on that virtual disk.
I tried repair-virtual disk, but it says their is nothing to do, I tried repair volume but it just sits there and doesn't do anything.
The machine is backed up to an extent, but I am very frustrated at this whole thing and would like some of the non-backed up data back too. Also, its hard to sell this new technology to customers if its this unstable.
Does anyone have any suggestions? please?