How does Windows 8 set up storage space?

“Storage Space  new features will utilize a physical storage facility to form a data pool. This data pool will be created using SATA, USB and SAS drives and will be able to use additional hardware extensions. These virtual hard disks, called "space", can expand 4TB of storage to 10TB. These storage spaces also provide an elastic layer to solve the problem of different physical media errors. Microsoft said in an official statement that users can increase the capacity in the storage pool as needed with fewer settings.

As users copy more files and approach the limits of available physical users in the storage pool, this "storage space" can be increased. Microsoft also explained the steps required to add a new hard drive. Once the user successfully creates the storage space, it can be used just like the operator normally uses the hard disk. Another benefit of this feature is that once the physical hard disk fails, this "storage pool> can automatically generate a copy of the data in the affected place.

Operation steps:

1. Open the computer, computer —— open the control panel;

2. Set the view mode to “large icon”;

3, Create a new pool and storage space, create a storage pool;

4, select the mobile hard disk, Create pool, create a storage pool, note that if there is important data on the mobile hard disk you need to back up yourself, Otherwise it will be gone after creation.

5, the creation process

6, create storage space, select the elastic mechanism and other options, as part of the creation space, the user can assign a drive letter and take formatting;

6.1 The first elastic mechanism: a simple layout to store a copy of the data does not protect you from the drive failure, this elastic type requires at least one drive;

6.2 The second elastic mechanism: two-way mirror Like layouts storing replicated data, protecting you from a drive failure, this elastic type requires at least two drives;

6.3 The third elastic mechanism: three mirrored layouts store replicated data, this system can Tolerate the failure of two physical disks, this elastic type requires at least three drives;

6.4 The last one is the extra check space, click “create a storage space”, then in the layout options Select Parity: Parity stores your data layout and parity, allowing a physical disk to fail. This layout requires at least three drives;

Create the first one as an example:

7. Create a successful interface:

Before creating “computer” and “disk management&disk; state of the disk interface:

After creating & ldquo; computer & rdquo; & & quoquo; disk management & rdquo; disk interface status:

It can be seen that our hard disk space is less than half, because half of the "storage store" a copy Data & rdquo; used.

8, delete method: After entering the storage space, click to change the settings;

delete the storage space first

delete the storage pool

delete is complete.