When you create a virtual disk on top of a Windows storage pool, Windows allows you to incorporate some fault tolerance into that virtual disk. Assuming that a sufficient number of physical disks ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 used the traditional disk management MMC snap-in to manage the disk configuration, as well as the handy DISKPART command-line tool. It is fair to say that the storage subsystem ...

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Storage Spaces (not to be confused with Storage Spaces Direct) has been a part of Windows Server since the days of Windows Server 2012, and provides an easy way for you to create software-defined ...

When Microsoft killed Windows Home Server's "Drive Extender" technology, we mourned its loss but held up hope that the company would persevere with the concept. The company has done just that with a ...

We can add drives to Storage Pool for Storage Spaces in Windows 11/10 in 2 quick and easy ways. We’ll explore this topic under the methods outlined below in this section: Add Drives to the Storage ...

Essentially, Storage Spaces stores two copies of your data so if one of your drives fails, you still have an intact copy of your data. When you add drives to a storage pool, the hardware name is used ...

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I thought I added it to the pool, but appears I didn't. But like many powershell commands, you get information that's barely usable! BTW, this is *not* visible in the Server Manager GUI. I had to use ...