Most of my servers have LSI Raid Cards in them and I usually run Raid 10 and use Western Digital "Red" drives . My understanding is that Drives that are categorized as "NAS" drives, like the WD Red Series have special error handling logic which makes them more suitable for use in a RAID than ordinary desktop dives. I'm told that "NAS" drives handle many of the non-fatal disk errors which are consistently happening on a disk drive without taking the disk offline whereas ordinary drives may report a recoverable misread as a fatal error and cause the RAID controller to take the drive offline.
My question is: Does Storage Spaces take advantage of the special error handling if you setup 4 or more drives in its equivalent of RAID 10? More specifically, I have a server with just an LSI 9200-8e Host Bus Adapter (HBA) which has no hardware RAID capability but rather configures its drives as simple JBODS. If I configure 4 or 6 or 8 of its drives as a storage spaces mirror set, will it take advantage of the RAID error handling capabilities of a "NAS" drive. In other words is it worth it to put in say 8 WD Red drives rather then 8 ordinary WD Desktop drives. The 4TB Red drives cost $228 a piece while the 4TB Destop drives cost $169 each. I know that the Reds are money well spent on an LSI RAID controller (say a 9260-8i), but would it just be a waste of money to put them on an HBA and configure them as a mirrored drive under Storage Spaces?