Windows 10: Confused - Want to set up storage space - All look like 1 drive

An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:.

Next: I want to have the C:/boot drive be part of the redundancy equation. I plan to use Parity. I can see where it would be if all drives looked like 1, but I don't see how it would be if not part of the pool.

Any fog removal is appreciated.

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Storage Spaces in Windows 10 - weird config

Hi,

I'm trying to set up RAID 10 with 4 HDDs, 3 of which are 3TB, and a 4TB one. I used Storage Spaces to create a mirrored storage space. I was asked to select the drives. Once the storage space was set up, it appeared in the list of Disks in Disk Management
and the two drives that were used for that were automatically removed. That's as expected. Then, I created a second mirrored storage space. Windows did not ask for selection of drives this time and, while I would expect it to use the other two empty drives,
Disk Management reports that the second storage space has been created, while the two drives that were supposed to be used have not been removed, they still appear as Unallocated. I proceeded to create a Stripped Volume in Disk Management, using the Disks
that were created by Storage Spaces. No errors. The total size of the new volume is correct. Then, I created another Stripped volume with the two remaining Unallocated Drives. Looks like it's working too, but I think something is very wrong.

It doesn't make sense to me. Please look at attached screenshot below. The four drives I've used to set up RAID10 as described above have model numbers starting with "WD" and ending with "N0". The Samsung SSD is assigned to Drive C: and the "WDC" ending with
"A0" is assigned drive letter D: (Label: "SOFTWARE"). The list of "Physical drives" in the Storage Pool indicates that Storage Spaces doesn't use the four drives.

Looks like a bug to me but please do let me know if I've done something wrong.

Thanks and regards

 

Windows 10 Storage Space DISAPPEARED??

I had a D: drive storage space set up using 3 drives and after the latest update and reboot... the storage space DISAPPEARED. All three drives are still there and fine... how do I get the storage space back??

Help?

...T.

 

It sounds like you want to use RAID1. Does your motherboard support RAID options?

 

I'm honestly not sure.

I was trying to set up via storage spaces. I hadn't read about mother board requirements to do that. I'll have to do some research.

 

I'm not sure if it is a requirement for Storage Spaces or not. RAID1 is also known as mirroring. That's where you have two 500 GB drives, as an example. Once you configure the RAID1 array in your BIOS, Windows will only see a single 500 GB drive, but that drive is being copied and synced on the fly with the second one. So, if one drive fails, you can still boot up as if nothing happened. If you delete a document, for example, it is gone from both drives, but the golden rule to remember is RAID is not a backup. It is designed to eliminate the loss of data due to a hard drive failure.

 

Yeah, I'm aware of that. Actually, now that I have time to think about it, what I'm trying to do is Raid 5...parity. But...I want to include the boot disk in that setup.

As I noted, I am able to create a separate drive pool with the 4 other drives in teh system as a D: drive, but the C: boot drive remains outside of that, which leaves a single disk point of failure.

So the question is how can I set up a Raid 5 system with all 5 drives in the system contained withing the Raid 5 system.

 

I have determined that my MB does support raid.

But browsing around a bit, it seems that maybe I need to change the drives to dynamic disks.

 

I believe that is correct, but I don't think you can add a drive to an array that has data on it you want to keep. If you want the boot drive included, you'll be doing a clean install.