Windows 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.

Windows storage spaces. Go to the taskbar and type storage spaces in the search box. There are four major ways to use storage spaces. 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. On a clustered server using storage spaces direct with local.

If you run low on capacity just add more drives to the storage pool. Give a name to the drive and choose the resilience. 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.

Choose create a new pool and storage space next select the drives you want to add to the pool and choose create pool option.