Windows 10: Storage Spaces: Drives not appearing during creation of new pool

Discus and support Storage Spaces: Drives not appearing during creation of new pool in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; Hello, In order to figure out the type of Storage Space configuration that would best suit my needs, I was attempting to create different situations... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by techwiz001, Jul 14, 2020.

  1. TECHWIZ001
    techwiz001 Win User

    Storage Spaces: Drives not appearing during creation of new pool


    Hello,

    In order to figure out the type of Storage Space configuration that would best suit my needs, I was attempting to create different situations using 5 USB 3.0 flash drives all 16gb or larger on my ThinkPad P50. However, when selecting drives to be part of my storage pool, none of these flash drives appear, though the internal SATA drive used for File History, not the boot drive is selectable. Have you experienced this issue before? Can these flash drives be made to appear in the storage pool creation menu?

    Thanks for your help.

    :)
     
    techwiz001, Jul 14, 2020
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  2. 333T
    333t Win User

    How to remove a bad drive in Windows 10 storage spaces pool

    Could someone list the steps involved in replacing a bad drive from a Windows 10 storage spaces pool? I cannot find any info on the Microsoft support site that is specific to Windows 10. Also, could you list the steps to remove a 'good' drive and replace
    it with another drive if the process is different?
     
    333t, Jul 14, 2020
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  3. CHUCK1212
    chuck1212 Win User
    Storage Spaces Pool - How to find enumerated drive number?

    Hi All,

    When creating a Storage Spaces Pool, the member drives are no longer listed in Disk Management.

    My system has been hanging every so often and when I checked the Windows logs, I see a lot of critical error messages about Harddisk/DR10 having a bad block. Since Disk Management no longer lists the individual pool drives, how do I find out which DR10 is one of the pool member drives?

    I've tried mini partition tool to see if it can see the drives, it doesn't. It can only see what Disk Management sees and that's only non-storage spaces pooled drives.

    Many thanks!
    Chuck
     
    chuck1212, Jul 14, 2020
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  4. MIKEBAR
    MikeBar Win User

    Storage Spaces: Drives not appearing during creation of new pool

    When adding a journal for storage spaces, is the journal added to the storage pool or a the storage space?

    I'm planning to create 2 storage spaces, 1 for backup and 1 for my main data. I was going to add 1 journal to each storage space, but it looks like the journal applies to the storage pool, not the storage space. Is that the case? if it is, is the better
    approach to add 2 SSD drives to the storage pool as journals? If I add 2 drives as journals, how do I change the friendly name of the drives? Both of my drives that I want to use as journals have the same exact name.

    Thanks,

    Mike
     
    MikeBar, Jul 14, 2020
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