Windows 8.1 Storage Spaces... won't release the space

So I have a Storage Space in Windows 8.1, it a 7 drive Pool in Parity mode with 3x 4TB drives and 4x 3TB drives. Things had been working well until I had a 3 TB drive fail, and had it RMA'd by Seagate. One of those 4TB drives was added just now also as
an upgrade.
The actual drive sizes add up to 24TB with a Formatted size of 21.77TB (3.63TB and 2.72TB respectively for 4TB and 3TB drives).
When I added the 2 new drives into the array, I thought things would work well. Since Storage Spaces doesn't have anything built in yet to redistribute the data after adding a new drive, I did a copy and then a delete of the data. This is the best recommendation
that I've currently been able to find to redistribute the data.
However, I ran out of space. Weird, since I have ample free space.
So I started moving the data off the array/space. I've now cleared the array down to just 2.62TB, with the Windows Properties reading 13.3 TB free (Parity Capacity is 15.9 TB, roughly 2/3 or the total space, which was expected). However, in the Storage Spaces
listing, my drives are listed as 90% full. This is true EVEN NOW that I've move everything but 2.72TB left.
Quick math: 2.72TB / 15.9 TB is 17.1% used, leaving 82.9% free.
However, I can't seem to "release" the space. Again, copying the data over did NOT work. and Deleting the data from the array/space DID NOT work. I can't fathom how when I delete the data from the array, it still lists it as 90% full.
Any help or ideas?

Hi,
Which method did you use to create Storage pool, simple spaces, mirror spaces, or parity spaces?
Would you please capture a screenshot of your Storeage pool?
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Hi omon_77,
You can first refer the following step by step third party article and KB:
Replace Failed Disks and Repair JBODs for Storage Spaces in Windows Server
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn782852.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Replacing a failed disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces with PowerShell
https://www.hodgkins.net.au/storage/replace-failed-disk-in-storage-spaces-pool-with-powershell/
Step By Step: How to Replace Faulty Disk In Two-Way Mirrored Storage Tiered Space
http://charbelnemnom.com/2014/09/step-by-step-how-to-replace-faulty-disk-in-two-way-mirrored-storage-tiered-space-storagespaces-ws2012r2/
More information:
Storage Spaces - Designing for Performance
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15200.storage-spaces-designing-for-performance.aspx
Storage Spaces Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831739.aspx
Windows Server Storage Spaces: What is it and why should I use it?
http://curah.microsoft.com/5049/windows-server-2012-r2-storage-spaces-what-is-it-and-why-should-i-use-it
I’m glad to be of help to you!
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Replacing a failed disk in storage space ! unable to remove a retired disk

Hi Folks
Not really asking for much !! we are using windows 2012 R2 storage space ; one disk failed
and marked as retired.
today we received replacement disk ; added that to storage pool - fine.
then I repaired all Virtual Disk - process was very quick and went to 100% like a flash.
then I tried to remove faulty disk by using following commands :
$DeadDisk=Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName PhysicalDisk-1
FriendlyName CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage
Size
PhysicalDisk-1 False Lost Communication Warning Retired 185.5
GB
Remove-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks $deaddisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName storagePool
this errored out ; basically saying that the above disk is still in-use !
Any suggestions ? does repair job take some time ? it looked very fast ; when I did get-storagejob ; it showed 100 percent completed .

Hi,
Please reboot the server then set the failed disk to "Retired" and remove the retired physical disk.
You could refer to the thread below to troubleshoot the issue:
Degraded Storage Spaces Storage Pool after single HDD failure
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3a7e2a7d-4ad7-48cc-8165-0d6673e37436/degraded-storage-spaces-storage-pool-after-single-hdd-failure
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Mandy
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Replace 2 old SANS with Storage Spaces?

We have two old HP SANs we want to replace before they fail.
All our hosts are Hyper-V and the VMs all Microsoft OSes.
We can replace them with equivalent SANs but I would like to ask you was to the comparison with a Storage Space solution: eliminating the rather idiosyncratic SAN management software etc..
CarolChi

Hi Carol,
Is there any specific question regarding this topic?
General speaking, Storage Space is somewhere similar to software RAID - you can create simple volume (RAID0), mirror volume (RAID1) or parity volume (RAID5). And there are some other options such as dual parity, 3-way mirror etc. You can manually confige
these options with PowerShell cmdlet so in order to manage Storage Space, you may need to realize related PowerShell cmdlet first.
And here is an article which introduced Storage Space:
Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Is it for you? Could be…
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/10/10/windows-server-2012-storage-spaces-is-it-for-you-could-be.aspx
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DS 1.3 Charts will not release the selected Item.

Hello all,
I have problem with Design Studio 1.3 we developed a couple of dashboards with DS 1.2. Now we upgraded dashboards to 1.3. We used Chart selection functionality to filter values on other charts etc. We also using dynamic visibility if you click on a chart it filters another chart and disappears and brings a new chart. To go back, we used a button to clear filter and make the first chart visible.
Now, before upgrading after the chart disappeared and clicked on a button to remove the filters, the chart would release the selected item on itself. However, after the upgrade, this won't work because the chart won't release the selected item. It just keeps selecting even after we clear all filters and make it visible.
I have been searching and trying to find a solution for this, but I couldn't come up with some kind of idea. And in scripts and don't see setSelectedItem or setSelectedValue or reset the selection. etc
1. Create a button with the script below: (BUTTON_1) This will clear the filter and make the chart disappear.
DS_2.clearFilter("0PLANT"); //Map DS_2 to another chart
CHART_1.setVisible(false); //Chart using DS_1
2. Create another button with the script below: (BUTTON_2) This will set the chart visible.
CHART_1.setVisible(true);
3. Click CHART_1 and select item.
4. Click BUTTON_1 to clear selected filter.
5. Click BUTTON_2 to make CHART_1 visible again.
One you click the second button it will set the filter back which was clicked in step 3.
Does anyone have idea on this? How could I reset the charts' selection?
Your help will be appreciated it greatly.
Thanks.

Hi,
In Design Studio 1.3 (SP0 & SP1), enhancing functionality was delivered with the new ability of the user to bookmark design studio applications and recall these bookmarks within the application. This resulted in changes to the behaviour of charts wrt selection of chart members....
As I understand this, the issue here is really around chart selection not persisting in Design studio 1.2, while chart selection is persisted in 1.3 release.
In 1.2 release, when the original chart is hidden and made visible again , the chart selection is not present when the chart reappears, and does not need to be cleared. In this case the chart is rerendered in its initial state in the browser (no selection).
In 1.3 release, selection within the chart is now persisted in general, this can be seen when a chart with a selection is hidden and made visible. In this case the chart is rerendered with selected member present in the browser. By clearing this selection within the chart, the user is now firing again the OnSelect event. (This causes the chart to be hidden and data source filtered again).
The scripting attached to the chart just needs to be modifed slightly to cover this scenario. The result of the getSelectedMember() func call needs to be checked to see if a valid selection is returned.
For example :
var temp = CHART_1.getSelectedMember("0BC_TYPE");
if (temp.text != "") {
      DS_1.setFilter("0BC_TYPE", temp);
      CHART_1.setVisible(false);
      CHART_2.setVisible(true);
The addition of an "if" statement in this case (marked in bold above), checks that if a member within the chart is not selected, in this case no value ("") is returned, and the Data src is not filtered/charts are not hidden & shown as before.
So the issue in 1.3 SP1 is in relation to the persistence of the selection within the chart, which when cleared, fires the onSelect event again (resulting in undesired filtering of data src again).
Hopefully the above scripting will resolve this issue for you....
Best regards,
Brian

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