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I assume you are using windows 2016
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Hi,<br />
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Yes, I am using Windows Server 2016.<br />
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Is tiering only available if I have an SSD?
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Hi,

Yes, I am using Windows Server 2016.

Is tiering only available if I have an SSD?

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No, you get to tell the server whether a disk is SSD or HDD. &nbsp;You can set your faster SAS disks as SSD and the others as HDD and tiering will work. &nbsp;<br />
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This hack is explained in the link I provided. &nbsp;<br />
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Look for the heading &quot;Tiered Storage&quot;
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No, you get to tell the server whether a disk is SSD or HDD.  You can set your faster SAS disks as SSD and the others as HDD and tiering will work.  

This hack is explained in the link I provided.  

Look for the heading "Tiered Storage"

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Bed time for me. &nbsp;I'll check on this again tomorrow
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Bed time for me.  I'll check on this again tomorrow

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I've been running some IOPS tests on this and I am getting some surprising results<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/05_w21/1163498/Untitled.jpg" target="_blank" title="Untitled.jpg (60 KB)"><img alt="Untitled.jpg" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 693px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/05_w21/1163498/Untitled.jpg" /></a><br />
I would class these as pretty good! - thoughts?<br />
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I used:<br />
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<a href="http://woshub.com/how-to-measure-disk-iops-using-powershell/" rel="ugc">http://woshub.com/how-to-measure-disk-iops-using-powershell/</a>
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I've been running some IOPS tests on this and I am getting some surprising results

Untitled.jpghttps://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/05_w21/1163498/Untitled.jpg
I would class these as pretty good! - thoughts?

I used:

http://woshub.com/how-to-measure-disk-iops-using-powershell/ [http://woshub.com/how-to-measure-disk-iops-using-powershell/]

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Sequential IOPS are pretty meaningless unless it's just doing backups, randon IOPS are what matters.
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Sequential IOPS are pretty meaningless unless it's just doing backups, randon IOPS are what matters.

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Hi,<br />
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I am in the process of creating a Hyper-V Replica Server and I have been looking at using Storage Spaces.<br />
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I have a HP MSA60 with 6x 3Tb SATA disks and 3x 4Tb SAS Disks - can i mix SATA and SAS in the same storage pool?
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Hi,

I am in the process of creating a Hyper-V Replica Server and I have been looking at using Storage Spaces.

I have a HP MSA60 with 6x 3Tb SATA disks and 3x 4Tb SAS Disks - can i mix SATA and SAS in the same storage pool?

Storage Spaces - Mixing SAS and SATA Drives

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.