Windows 10 Storage Spaces (RAID) // Easy step by step guide

[@CONCEPTUALMAN]

One thing to note : MBR partition doesn't make sense on drives of greater than 2 TB . For greater than 2 TB use GPT.

[@roomlizzard]

Thanks so much for "Demonstrating how to replace a crashed drive" This is great, tested and working !!

[@nessusing]

Thank you so much. None of other videos shows what to do when a crashed HD happens, yours does! Very informative content!

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Welcome!

[@ultraali453]

If one of the drives in a Storage Space with Parity fails, do we see a notification in the Windows Action Centre?

[@eitan71]

that was the best video i saw about Storage Spaces in YT Bravo !

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks, appreciate your comment

[@popullarmmax]

Thank you for demonstrating a faliure theres very little information of this topic even on other operating sistems.

[@blkstarvideo]

Thank you so much for your very clear and concise video. You made the whole process a lot easier to understand. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Awesome, thank you!

[@ScottyP5947]

Thank you for this info! I'm am trying to move two mirrored drives I created in storage spaces to a new motherboard. What is that process like?

[@Markus8200]

Great video. Quick, clear, and concise. Thank you.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Welcome

[@mbcucmm1457]

Well explained and straight to the point, thanks

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@AsifAAli]

Thank you. You made it look quite simple.

[@cyrilasfrenchyaz]

Nice video, thank you. Why limiting yourself to MBR vs GPT? MBR has a 2TB limit space vs 64TB for GPT.

[@sjsphotog]

great tutorial and info. I want to create a SS one of these days with a bunch of old HDD I have and get a DAS enclosure to put them in. ... this video will help for sure . thanks

[@HeinleinShinobu]

if in occassion when hdd really failed, how to we know which is the one failed in the case?

[@Intirius]

Nice for the basic functionality. With some PowerShell commandments you can also add SSD Cache for more intermediate performance. But it's a bit complicated, but works wonderful.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks for sharing

[@listenonly5815]

could you teach me how to use ssd for cache purpose on windows 10?

[@OShackHennessy]

Really appreciate this tutorial thank you

[@mikorf73]

Nice video .Very educational but can you please tell me how to move an already made storage space to a new windows os after formatting or to a new PC ? and another question if you can please. Lets say i have 5 same disks in the storage how can i tell which one has failed in case of disk failure? Thank you.

[@timmark4190]

For reformatted machine just connect the hdds and you will see a drive

[@protovision2010]

Very informative video, thanks! I currently have Win10 software raid 1 setup within Disk Management using 2x 2TB drives. Is there any advantages to replacing it using Storage Spaces instead? Looks like recovery and adding a drive were very easy under Storage Spaces.

[@ChaplainDaveSparks]

Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a 6 TB external drive. I'd like to (initially) add one more 6 TB external drive, and manage *BOTH* via Windows Storage Spaces. My existing external drive is a little over half full and is not being managed by WSS. Can I initially create a storage space with a new drive, copy my existing data to it, then reformat my existing drive and add it to the pool? If so, can I change the resiliency option after adding the new drive?

[@Jixzl]

2:05 Okay, man, I typed "Disk".

[@tinevimbomutasa]

thank you for the tips

[@ProducoesVP]

Hey....how do I get ReFS File System option? I am using Windows 10 Pro...but in Windows 11 I don't have this option...

[@necrisro]

I tested Simple (no resiliency) thinking it was Raid 0 but it isn't, it's just a big spanned volume, if you want Raid 0 you must do it from Disk Management and select Stripped option

[@scarletpimpernel6813]

👍Excellent informative video about Windows Storage Spaces. Thank you!

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks for watching!

[@vex2085]

Can you use USB thumb drives??

[@vitiosus701]

Can we select GPT instead of MBR at the disk initialization?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

I didn't try it but I think so

[@spreaderniter0130]

Can you unplug the storage pool from one computer and use it on another computer?

[@therock005]

this is what i would like to know as well

[@mdd1963]

had some trouble initially creating the array at step 1 within storage Spaces with a pair of WIn 5400 RPM 500 GB Black drives, individually, or together, they would simply error out. (Did find a reference at an old MS forum for disabling the driver of each with device mngr/drives, reenabling after reboot, and presto, all was good with creating a striped array/RAID 0...; might help someone else who encounters issues with this) Although CrystalDiskMark showed only 150 MB sec on sequential reads/writes, but, an actual file transfer from NVME on C;Drive to the array surprisingly showed 220 MB/sec writes; decent!)

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks for the tip

[@kabandajamir9844]

The best teacher

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks!

Is there any way to force Windows to warn you that one drive failed or is missing?

[@lucasmoreira3237]

Thank you.

[@hungnhat3823]

What happen when i reinstall Os ?

[@NoEgg4u]

1) Will this work with USB drives? 2) Will this work with only a small part of several drives? For example, assume you have 3 physical USB drives, each with two partitions. Partition #1 on each drive will work normally. Partition #2 on each drive will be allocated to be part of Storage Spaces. Is #2, above, an option? Will that work? Thank you.

[@neverletthemtameyou]

What happens if the system disk you have windows installed on dies? Will a new windows installation be able see the "storage space" you have made? I had a FreeNas ZFS die on me. The OS got corrupted. And the new install was unable to discover the old ZFS disks. Lots lots of data.

[@VatchGaming]

They see it, well i know this is too late but the Storage Space information are on ALL of the drives. So as long as it's windows 10 or higher it will detect the SPs.

[@Cryptolorian]

Excellence! Juicy stuff.

[@eglasb]

Does anyone know how to turn on alarm in case of failure of a hard drive? I just found out that one of my drives failed and was not aware!

[@hyper6910]

is that a similar to RAID 5?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Yes

[@willcurry6964]

How do you completely remove the Storage Pool?

[@taranagnew436]

what are storage pools (RAIDS) used for?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

They have 2 purposes: 1- Make your storage redundant, so if you loose your physical disk, your data will not be lost, but this will cost you disk space. 2- They can be used to make multiple physical disk appear as one large drive to the OS, but this is risky because if you loose one physical disk, your data will be lost.

[@ahmadkamel7405]

Thanks for this good video, Please can u explain how to make Raid 10 on windows environment windows 10 or windows server

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Glad you liked the video, for RAID 10, you need 4 disks. You configure each pair in RAID 1 and then you configure a stripe set on both RAID 1 pairs

[@ahmadkamel7405]

@@KnowledgeSharingTech thank you

[@macgyver2615]

what would of happen if you add a 300GB disk? instead of the 250GB?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

It will work

[@lockin222]

thanks

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Welcome

[@voodoovinny7125]

Windows 10 Storage Spaces does not really use "RAID". It is more of a JBOD than a RAID. If you put "No Resiliency" you will see that the speed will still be the same as a single drive.

[@AuAmeineKronjuwellen]

Nice Demo. Storage Spaces are fine until Microsoft will destroy your Pool after an Windows Update. There ist no solution. #raw Partitionen

[@intothevortex7825]

Not mbr!!

[@GameOverAus]

Storage Spaces is shit, it doesnt use columns based on amount of hard drives so you get 0 performance benefit it seems to only hit the performance of 1 drive at best. Disk Management creating a Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 1+0 gives proper performance.