Windows 10: Storage pool with hdd and ssd

Hello

I have made a what I think is a pretty sick gaming pc but its slow because of the hdd and I don't have any ssds big enough to suit my needs so I'm wondering if I can make a storage pool that will have the os on the ssd as well as my games that I use the most on there as well like raid 0 but only frequently used files on the ssd and the rest on the hdd.

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Can I use Storage spaces in Win10 to pool SSD and HDD drive together?

Would it be possible in Windows 10 to create a storage space in a laptop with an SSD and a HDD?

It appears I need two drives besides the Windows drive, but does that mean physical drives, or could I have a Windows partition and a "storage space" partition on same drive (SSD) to pool with the HDDdrive?

Or, is it possible to have a small "bootloader" creating the storage space windows is installed in?

I would like to have a tiered storage space pool, so windows automatically move less used files from the SSD to the HDD.

I could remove the CD-drive and put a 3rd drive in a caddy in place. Would that be an idea?

 

create storage pool

I had a USB storage device that became damaged and unserviceable attached to my laptop I had a storage pool with this storage device . I deleted the storage device and did the necessary steps that i know to unattached the device from the memory. I plugged
in a new storage device and tried to create a new storage pool. I keep getting the error r unable to create because it is being used by other apps.

 

Storage Pool Read-Only Unhealthy

Okay, I've gotten myself into a pickle. Situation:

1. I had a 4-disk, mirrored storage pool
   
2. I wanted to remove 2 disks, so I retired them (prepared them for removal)
   
3. I waited until the process was done and Get-PhysicalDisk reported "retired"
   
4. I PHYSICALLY removed them and formatted them without completing the final "remove" step.
   

SO, now I have a very odd situation. I have a 4-drive pool with two "retired" drives that have "lost communication". All data is on the two remaining drives, but they are inaccessible because the pool is "unhealthy". The pool is in a read-only OperationalStatus, so I can't modify the pool configuration.

I have tried to set the pool's -IsReadOnly flag to $false. Works. BUT the operational status remains read-only, perhaps because the health status is unhealthy? I even physically reattached the missing disks. But because the disks had been reset, they aren't recognized by the pool.

Anyway, the current relevant status of pools, physical and virtual disks is as follows:

The two "Can Pool" drives are the ones that I removed and reattached (*58 and *33). The two that are part of the pool are (probably obviously) *H4 and *QX.

Anybody have any ideas? At least short of doing a relatively expensive recovery? All I need to do is remove the two "retired" drives from the pool. Seems like it's just a database issue. Certainly no data should be lost or corrupt.

Oh, Windows 10, not server, if it matters.