Re: Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller might be bad for privacy and effect your hardware

Norm Why wrote:
>>> Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller might be bad for privacy
>> AFAIK it operates at the block/device layer, not the file system layer, 
>> I'd be surprised if it's responsible for copying your files to "the 
>> cloud", what makes you think that it is?
> 
> No. As I said, it is apps like Dropbox and OneDrive that expose files on the 
> Web. Goggle Drive does this visibly, under your control on the Web
> 
> Agreed, Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller works at the block/device layer. 
> It can work as a controller for file systems on the Web.
> 
> There is no was to uninstall Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller. Sometimes 
> it may encourage a hardware controller to be uninstalled.
> 
> Using an mSATA SSD in addition to a SATA SSD solves the lack of reliability 
> for my Sedna. Before, with just a  SATA SSD, the drive would crash and not 
> come up again with reboot. Forensic analysis showed the file system was 
> trashed.
> 
> Question: Can Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller trash a physical drive? In 
> science we use working assumptions. If a piece of software appears be 
> operating in a destructive, deceitful
> manner, I assume the person responsible is destructive, deceitful. Enter, 
> stage left, Microsoft.

I presume the Sedna is a bog-standard SATA controller,
like a Marvell or similar. It might even be an Asmedia
product for that matter.

If you include model numbers, it allows the audience here
to review the salient characteristics.

There have been SATA controllers that implemented caching
or accelerating features, and side effects of this might
be that in HDTune, the Health tab is blank. That helps
tell you the controller isn't an ordinary one.

I wouldn't mention this, except on the machine I'm installing
Windows on at the moment, the Health tab is blank, and the
machine defaults to "RAID ON" in the BIOS. And it's the RAID
mode that prevents SMART passthru.

    Paul