I have had Storage spaces running for a couple of weeks. 4 drives 3tb each, same make/model. Have them pooled into a striped "raid 5" setup thru storage spaces.  I travel and do some shift work. I frequently try to get access to them remotely and informed that the drive pool is not accessible.  So when I get home I attempt to access it locally with same issue.

I see my pool (G:) in my drive list, I click on it no problem,  can see 1st directory, and can go into 1 folder.  If I try to do anything in that folder, go to any other folders or attempt to use any files in the root, it sits and waits and looks like it is searching. I hear no drives spinning up and after about 2 minutes I get a pop up that says location not accessible.

In order to access the information, I need to shut computer down and reboot. Not only is this a bother, but sometimes not available remotely.

Are the drives going to sleep and not waking up?

Any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Hello Chris,

Do you mean that you use a RAID5 drive to create a storage space, and it worked for weeks and now has the issue about location not accessible?
Please share us the whole error message and a screenshot is preferred.

Based on my test, I can normally create a storage space with 3 VHD. And it work with no accessible issue.

Please try to change ownership and permission of the drive and check if the issue still exists.
For more information about taking ownership, please take a look at the following article.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753659.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN