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About Microsoft Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces is a technology in Windows and Windows Server that can help protect your data from drive failures. It is conceptually similar to RAID, implemented in software. You can use Storage Spaces to group three or more drives together into a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create Storage Spaces. These typically store extra copies of your data so if one of your drives fails, you still have an intact copy of your data. If you run low on capacity, just add more drives to the storage pool. There are four major ways to use Storage Spaces, on a Windows PC, on a stand-alone server with all storage in a single server, on a clustered server using Storage Spaces Direct with local, direct-attached storage in each cluster node, and on a clustered server with one or more shared SAS storage enclosures holding all drives. Expand volumes on Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server clusters.
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