Storage Spaces vs Plain-Old-Partitions on single-spindle 300GB drive

When I originally installed my first WS2012 system (running WSUS, DHCP, WDS), I created simple volumes on the drive as I've always done. OS is installed on a 150GB drive, and I have a second 300GB drive that's providing storage for WSUS, WDS, and who knows
what else I'll do with the 70% of that drive that WSUS/WDS will never use.
I'm familiar with the concepts and intents for Storage Spaces, but is there any compelling reason to use Storage Spaces on a single-spindle drive? If not, then I'm happy to just leave it as it is and invest my time in other endeavors.
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When I originally installed my first WS2012 system (running WSUS, DHCP, WDS), I created simple volumes on the drive as I've always done. OS is installed on a 150GB drive, and I have a second 300GB drive that's providing storage for WSUS, WDS, and who knows
what else I'll do with the 70% of that drive that WSUS/WDS will never use.
I'm familiar with the concepts and intents for Storage Spaces, but is there any compelling reason to use Storage Spaces on a single-spindle drive? If not, then I'm happy to just leave it as it is and invest my time in other endeavors.
If you'd create Spaces with redundancy (mirror or parity) and use ReFS on top you'll have much more stable config. Classic LVD + NTFS are not capable of handling anything related to silent data corruption (if SCSIOP_READ10 completed OK storage stack will
think read is OK and NTFS has no mechanism to check for data integrity either). SS + ReFS will both detect and try to fix the error a) mapping new block and b) relocating data using alive content. That's in theory :)
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