Windows storage spaces - raid10

I just realized, I believe it's mirror, two-way, fixed.

Storage spaces is not really comparable to RAID in any variation. Both (can) offer resiliency, but digging into RAID1 or  RAID10 vs storage spaces becomes a bit complex and no direct comparisons do it justice even from a high level.

If you want full copies of your data to be guaranteed on two different drives, a 2-way mirror is what you want.

Since this is the first time using window spaces, what are the options, to do a raid 10.

Even on non-clustered environments, I've found SA to be worthwhile. More granular storage expansion. *Much* faster drive failure recovery. And because it isn't in a cluster, SATA SSDs with SAS spindles (your 10k drive example) in tiered performance can *crush*  RAID on performance at a similar price point. SS isn't just for clusters, although I know that's your business model Phil.

See you Sunday. We should discuss it over Scotch.

I'm interested in finding out more.

SSD Tier and Spindle Tier would be the way to go then. The SSD Tier would need to be fairly high Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD - high endurance) to make it through the average four or five years of a solution's lifetime.

Thanks guys, tons of good info, and I realize that SS is not raid now.

So I have 30 drives, in a q30 device, from www.45drives.com
I am using hitachi 3TB sata drives, 7200RPM because I obtain them for free.

I know I am doing mirroring, but I'm not sure if I also selected parity or any other feature, is there a way to find out exactly what setup I am using?

In storage spaces, mirroring and parity are mutually exclusive. You cannot create both on the same storage. It wouldn't let you. Technet has plenty of powershell documentation that you can query your storage and see what you set up. I don't recall what all the GUI shows as I do all my storage spaces in powershell.

But I also use the ISE so I don't memorize commands. And being on a mobile phone, browsing technet to find them is a bit more than I want to try on cell data (no wifi here) or small screen. But honestly I know thebdocz aren't too hard to find.

I've always been reluctant to use powershell because I was thinking I can never memorize, or learn hundreds of commands.
I brought up ISE and I'm assuming it's easier to use because of the search feature, right?
So if I know practically 0 about powershell commands, how can I start using it more using the ISE?
Of course theres google, but there are so many commands where I don't even know where to begin.

We use PowerShell almost exclusively for all of our Storage Spaces, Hyper-V, and cluster setups.

It is the simplest way to set things up and allows us to be consistent across hundreds of deployments.

We use OneNote to store all of our PowerShell as it is easy to search.

Thanks everyone for all the input.