Storage Spaces

What Does Storage Spaces Mean?

Storage Spaces is a Windows 8 operating system (OS) feature that allows a user to combine all storage hardware mediums as a single virtual pool of data. It is based on the Windows Home Server Drive Extender technology, which provided similar features but lacked data resiliency and integrity.

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Techopedia Explains Storage Spaces

Storage Spaces allows users to create a virtualized logical storage drive on top of pooled storage capacity. Each virtual/logical drive or storage space may be used as a typical disk drive with the option to format, secure and segregate data. Data resiliency and redundancy is provided through a two or three-way mirroring technique, where two or three copies of each data object are maintained on separate disks.

Storage Spaces also incorporates a thin provisioning technique in which the collective capacity of physical hard drives is extended according to their actual size when converted into a pool or space.

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