When you create a virtual disk on top of a Windows storage pool, Windows allows you to incorporate some fault tolerance into that virtual disk. Assuming that a sufficient number of physical disks ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Among the many apps you get with Windows 11 there’s Storage ...

Windows Home Server was never a particularly popular product, but it did bring some interesting features to the table for the few who used it and became fans. One of these features was called Drive ...

Data redundancy: Makes sure there are at least two copies of data, each living on a different disk, helping to prevent any accidental data loss in case there is a hard disk failure. For example, you ...

The error occurs when a user tries to create a new storage space into an existing pool or when creating a new pool so they can retain the extra copies. The complete ...

Suppose I have 4 drives, call them A, B, C, and D, in local SATA bays in a Microserver, configured as 2-way Mirrored Storage Pool created in Win 10 Pro, and I'm running out of space. (I have a ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

Is there a difference between these two seemingly similar storage concepts? Yes, and it has to do with how that storage is managed. One of the things I've learned in the decades I've worked in IT is ...