Storage Spaces
The Storage Spaces feature is new to Windows Server 2012 and is the first time the basic file server file system has had a major update in Windows in years. The Storage Spaces feature makes it possible for the file share to span multiple drive shares and multiple servers. Unlike in the past, when a file share was data and directories on a single drive volume, now with Storage Spaces, the share can span across two, three, or more volumes yet still appear to be a single directory of files.
Organizations are using the Storage Spaces feature to not only simply add on more storage as an existing drive volume runs out of space, but also to mirror and stripe storage spaces for higher redundancy and reliable of storage. By mirroring multiple ...
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