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> Which can massively accelerate small file load times. Using this on a VM pool greatly speeds things up.

I did some research, and it appears that Microsoft has added "SSD Tiers" to Storage Spaces. I didn't realize Microsoft had that feature!

> Specific number of disks. You increase the disks size and you can grow you raid.

Yeah. Except my disks don't grow in size. I can have a Storage Space composed of 1TB drives. And then add 2TB drives next year.

Its a nifty trick, and definitely is a smoother transition than ZFS "replace everything" methodology.




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