Windows 10: Adding physical disks to a storage pool

I have a storage pool of 4 physical 8tb disks. I added 2 more physical 8tb disks to the pool, but there doesn't seem to be a size increase. What I'm reading is that storage pools can't be added to once created, but that doesn't sound right. So, how do I get the added disks to appear in my usable storage space?

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How to remove external hard disk from storage pool on Windows 10

Hi Velen,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern about removing the external hard disk from storage pool, we will help you with this issue.

Try the below steps to: Remove a physical disk by using Windows PowerShell
and check if it helps.

• 
  Press Windows
  key from the keyboard, type Windows PowerShell and select
  Run as administrator.
  
• 
  Enter the command replacing <diskname> with the disk name:
  

• • 
    Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <diskname> -Usage Retired
    

(If the pool is clustered, you will need to run this command on the cluster node which has the cluster resource for the pool online.)

3. Prior to performing step 5, you must wait for all active repair jobs to complete. To monitor the status of repair jobs, type the following command:
Get-StorageJob

4. Type the following command: Remove-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <diskname>

5. Physically disconnect the old disk.

For further reference: Storage Spaces Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue for further assistance.

 

Storage Pool missing

Hello.

I had four 4TB drives in a 8TB Storage Pool mirrored setup.

I was trying to use the "Remove"-option to replace one of the disks. After clicking it, Windows became unresponsive and then bluescreen. When Windows booted back up, the Storage Pool was missing, and the physical disks not accessible anymore. Missing in
disk manager and my computer, but not Device manager. They are still listed there.

Get-Physicaldisk reports the disks as Starting, OK but Health status is Unknown. CanPool is false. Get-Virtualdisk reports nothing.

This setup was (unfortunately?) formatted with ReFS back in 8.1 years ago, which was nothing more than an experiment at the time and I just kept filling up not really thinking about it.

 

The return of the Drive Extender - Windows 8 Pool disks

Linky link.

OK, the old version of Windows Home Server hade a technology called Drive Extender. You added disks to a pool of storage, so that you had several physical discs but only one logical "disc" (or pool or whatever they called it). Kinda like RAID, but simpler. Windows 8 will have a similiar thing, but a bit more powerful: Storage Spaces. From the article:

The good thing is that it will probably be included in both desktop and server versions of Win8. Now I want a Home Server based on Win8.