Creating Mirrored Volumes
A spanned volume provides an easy way to set up a dynamic storage pool using multiple drives, which is great if you don’t want your data needs being cramped by a single hard drive. However, what if your concerns are more about data resiliency? That is, if you want to minimize system downtime, then the best way to do that is to have a redundant set of data on another hard drive. That way, if the original hard drive goes down for the count, you can still keep the computer running off the redundant data on the other drives.
You can establish this data redundancy by setting up another volume as a mirror of the original. Windows 8 maintains exact copies of the data on the mirror drive, and if the original drive dies, the ...
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