Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces offers a completely new, sensible approach to adding disk space to a personal computer. Instead of having to deal with separate disk drives, you can choose to simply “pool” them. If your first disk fills up, you add another and Windows combines the added free space with your existing disk volume. You don’t have to keep track of what data is stored on which drive, Windows does that. You just see one big drive. Makes sense, yes?
You can have Storage Spaces present the entire combined storage space of your disks, or you can dedicate some space to storing redundant information to help recover from a physical disk failure. If you wish, you can choose to use added disks the old way, separately.
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