Raid is a data storage technology that takes many physical disk drive components into a single logical unit. Raid can be designed for two purposes data redundancy and improved performance. There are multiple different raid configurations that have both downsides and upsides, so let’s see the different raids and the best one for the performance and redundancy. This article will clear you how can you make raid setup in windows 10. Window 10 has simple steps to set up raid by building on the good work of windows 8 and storage specifications. A software application built into windows that pay attention to configuring raid drives for you.
For raid setup you will require a working install of windows 10, three same size unformatted hard drives and these discussed details.
Raid Configuration in windows 10
- Install all the hard drives in your system and let it boot into windows
- Backup your all necessary data from your operating system drive before starting the configuration.
- Type “storage spaces” into search bar of windows.
- Select create a new pool and storage spaces. The windows will check all the disk drives and will select them into next window.
- Choose the raid type under resiliency by selecting and drop down menu. Now simple pool the all disk, three way mirror and two way mirror are same to raid 1 and parity is same to raid 5.
- Set the disk drive size if necessary. It should be default to the correct setting.
- Now select the create storage space.
- After creating little wait for the process and then you will see an single disk drive with accurate size in window’s explorer.
- Now type the “Manage storage spaces” in the search bar to keep an aye on the array.
Configuration of raid in windows ten is much easier than ever. Just keep an eye on error reporting once you have it setup in case of any problems. Raid 1 is a mirror which actually means the same data is copied in both of disks, Weather raid 5 is a striped phenomenon which means all the data is scattered across the drives with parity bits on each which allowed the raid to rebuild data from a lost disk.
Uses of storage spaces
- First, storage space helps create large network drives with a huge space to save your data. This is much efficient and more reputable than sharing multiple drives on the same network.
- You can survive data better with storage space. For example, if you have many USB drives attached to the same computer, you can combine them all into one logical drive, so you can manage them all in one place.
- Storage spaces can be easily configured on a Windows PC, a stand alone server with whole data stored on just a single server, a cluster server using direct storage areas, and on a cluster server with one or more SAS storage enclosures.
- Probably the biggest advantage of using disk space is the resiliency of your data.
storage spaces support four types of resiliency and those are following.
- Simple Resiliency
- Two-way mirror
- Three-way mirror
- Parity
