Configuring Storage Spaces

Storage Spaces is an incredibly cool technology that isn't flaunted or marketed on its own accord; it just does its job and does it well. How many times have you caught yourself stuck between a rock and a hard place because you are running out of room on a single hard drive that is in one of your servers? I have plenty of times, especially working with technologies such as RDS that may contain a lot of user data all stored on the system drive. In most current server hardware, it is easy to add multiple hard drives, but not always easy to decide how to partition and volume those drives so you don't run out of space on C: while having 200 GB of free space on D:.

These kinds of situations are where Storage Spaces can save ...

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