Microsoft Storage Spaces

Storage spaces are technically virtual drives that appear in file explorer as normal local storage and each storage space you create can be less equal or greater to the amount of the physical.

Microsoft storage spaces. On a windows pc for more info see storage spaces in windows 10. If you run low on capacity just add more drives to the storage pool. Storage spaces direct is the evolution of storage spaces first introduced in windows server 2012.

Create a storage pool you must first group available physical disks into one or more storage pools. To implement windows 10 storage spaces simply combine three or more drives into a single logical pool. There are four major ways to use storage spaces.

Caching in deployments with drives of all three types. These storage spaces typically store two copies of your data so if one of your drives fails you still have an intact copy of your data. On a stand alone server with all storage in a single server for more info see deploy storage spaces on a stand alone.

In storage spaces volumes are placed on virtual disks storage spaces that are carved out of free space in a pool. On a clustered server using storage spaces direct with local. Storage spaces helps protect your data from drive failures and extend storage over time as you add drives to your pc.

Get more done with microsoft 365 create your best work with the latest versions of word excel and other office apps. You can use storage spaces to group two or more drives together in a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create virtual drives called storage spaces. When you create a.

When using some configurations partitions for parity storage spaces might show as raw in disk manager. Every virtual disk has a health status healthy warning unhealthy or unknown as well as one or more operational states. It leverages many of the features you know today in windows server such as failover clustering the cluster shared volume csv file system server message block smb 3 and of course storage spaces.