WIndows 8.1 Storage Space failing -- having trouble even getting information.

Hello,
I've looked at a bunch of articles to try to sort this out, but haven't found anything. I hope I'm just missing something obvious. :-/
Here's my setup: in addition to a system drive, I have three additional, identical disks (WD Red, 2TB) that I have placed in a storage pool. Out of these, I've carved three storage spaces: two set for mirroring, one for parity.
Something's gone awry... (or I wouldn't be here):
If I try to open up the "Storage Spaces" control panel, it just hangs. Task manager reports it as "not responding".
In PowerShell, running "get-virtualdisk" reported the OperationalStatus of the three virtual drives as InService for a while, but then started showing them as Degraded. Interestingly, these degraded disks seem to flip back to InService every so
often. The HealthStatus is always listed as Warning.
Running "get-physicaldisk", however, shows all three physical drives with an OperationalSatus of OK and HealthStatus of Healthy.
The system shows ~25% disk usage, making me thing that something is going on, but who knows...
I can browse into the two mirrored storage spaces, and things superficially look okay. I cannot open up the parity space.
I have an offsite backup through one of these cloud services, but it will be cheaper and faster to get this machine back on its feet rather than order up a copy of the backup.
So, wondering how to proceed here:
Are things clearly hosed?
If there is hope, what are the next steps in debugging/fixing this?
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
I suggest referring to the following link:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11382.storage-spaces-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspx
Best Regards,
Vincent Wu
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