Working with Storage Spaces
Multiple-terabyte (TB) hard drives are becoming routine sights. However, if anything our data is expanding at an even faster rate as we download and rip music, TV shows, movies, and other massive media files. Nowadays, media collections that take up 10 or 20TB are not at all unusual.
In previous versions of Windows, the only simple way to store 10TB of data was to purchase five 2TB hard drives and split the data across the drives. This is not a great solution because it’s difficult both to allocate storage efficiently and to find the file you need. Unfortunately, higher-end solutions such as RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) are complex to implement.
Windows 8 solves this problem by offering a new feature ...
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