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How to use the storage space in Windows 10, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and answer in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and easy way.

Windows 10 provides a number of new feature improvements, including cross-device features, unified storage, improved Web browser security, and a familiar user interface. Although Windows 10 is Microsoft's first-generation operating system, it has not given up on the familiar features of early Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, such as storage space.

The storage space feature, which first appeared in Windows 8.x, allows users to combine different types of disks, such as mechanical disks and SSD disks, into a single storage pool and then create them as "storage space."

What is storage space?

Storage space is a feature that centrally merges local physical storage devices into storage pools and divides them into (one or more) virtual drives. The storage space created by the user can be greater than, equal to, or less than the capacity of a single physical hard disk in the storage pool.

Storage space currently supports ATA, SATA, SAS, and USB storage devices, and at least one separate available disk device (1 disk is not meaningful) is required to use this feature.

In Windows 10, we cannot use all the disks to create storage space. For example, if you have 3 disks with 100 GB, Windows 10 will only allow you to use 2 of them to create "storage pools". When the storage pool is created, you can create a 200 GB virtual driver or a 1000 GB virtual drive.

Of course, if you create 1000 GB of storage on only 200 GB of physical storage, the actual amount of storage available is only 200 GB. And as space is used, Windows prompts users to mount more disks to accommodate more free space.

Why use storage space

Although most Windows 10 users will not use this feature, "storage space" has many benefits. For example, multiple disk drives can be combined into a large space, plug-in USB devices can be merged into the resource pool to divide storage space, and disks of different sizes can be combined together to provide certain data protection functions.

Do you feel that the storage space function in Windows 10 is very similar to LVM in Linux? It's just that the storage space feature does not provide snapshot functionality.

Storage space elasticity

The resiliency types of Windows 10 storage space are as follows:

◆ simple (no recovery): simple storage space is written to a copy of the data and cannot provide data protection in the event of a disk failure. (at least 1 available disk is required)

◆ bidirectional mirroring: two-way mirrored storage space is written to two copies of data, providing data redundancy protection in the event of a block disk corruption. (at least 2 available disks are required)

◆ three-way mirroring: three copies of data are written to the mirrored storage space, providing data redundancy protection if two disks fail at the same time. (at least 3 available disks are required)

◆ parity: the parity storage space writes parity information at the same time as the data is written, protecting data in the event of a disk failure. (at least 3 available disks are required)

The specific type of storage space chosen mainly depends on the user environment and needs. If you are more concerned about access speed and disk utilization, it is recommended to use simple mode; if you want to consider data security, it is recommended to use one of the mirror mode; if you want to consider the balance between data security and speed, it is recommended to use parity mode.

Note: the single storage space allowed in Windows 10 is 63 TB.

Since my machine has only 3 hard drives, in order to facilitate the demonstration, I will use a virtual machine to demonstrate the management and configuration of storage space.

Create storage pools and storage SPAC

1. Connect all internal and external disks that want to participate in the storage space.

two。 Search for and open the storage space in the control panel.

3. Click create new pool and storage space.

4. Check all physical disks to participate in the storage space-click to create a pool (the checked disks will be formatted).

5. At this point, in order to facilitate the distinction, we recommend that you assign a well-identified name to the storage space and select a drive letter. File systems generally choose NTFS instead of REFS. If you also know about flexible file system (ReFS), you can refer to our previous article.

6. We have already introduced the type of storage space earlier, and you can choose it on your own.

7. At this point, we can manually enter the amount of storage space to be allocated. As we said earlier, the size here is virtual and can actually exceed the real physical space.

8. After all the configurations are complete, click the create Storage button.

When the storage space is created, you can see some very useful information in manage Storage Space, such as the usage of physical storage, the usage of each storage space, and the physical disks that participate in the allocation.

This is the answer to the question about how to use the storage space in Windows 10. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel for more related knowledge.

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