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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/SamSausages on 2023-09-02 14:16:54.

Is it just me or is windows 11 storage spaces about convenience and not performance? Have we gone backwards from software raid that actually worked?

My use case is Video Game Storage/install.

I’m using 4 SATA SSD’s in Storage Spaces RAID0 and I only get the performance of 1 SATA drive. The AMD Raid option isn’t much better and looks like abandonware.

Yet I want better performance on my PC than 500/MBs of 1 SATA. (Already filled my M.2’s) Heck, I was getting much better SATA storage performance 5 years ago using software raid and SSD’s…

I don’t want to drop a RAID card into my PC, but I already have a 10g network and can access my ZFS NVMe Pool on my Unraid Server faster than my local SATA SSD storage. (at least throughput, haven’t tested latency)

So now I’m wondering if I should just move my game storage over to my Unraid, either with an SMB mounted disk, or setting up an iSCSI target.

I’m sure latency will be worse, but I’m wondering if the throughput is more important. Also, I’ll be saving some latency by not using SATA and accessing NVMe storage.

Did I miss something about software RAID on Windows over the past 5 years?

Has anyone actually tried this? Thoughts?