It is conceptually similar to raid implemented in software.
Storage space calculator windows.
For a 3 drive set up you only have 2 options a 2 way mirror space and a parity space or both.
It is a downloadable zip that runs on windows xp vista and windows 7.
Storage space provide data resiliency from data corruption such as bit rot and device failure.
Finally select create storage space this should create the storage space for you.
Storage spaces direct calculator preview.
The drive has to be around 5gb of size to be available in storage spaces.
To remove drives from windows 10 storage spaces pool.
There may be times when you d want to remove some drives from your pool.
Here s how you can do it.
A 2 way mirror consumes space using a factor of 2 so the 10tb 2 5tb of usable space.
You stated that you wanted to pool 3 drives which total 10tb of space.
You can use storage spaces to group three or more drives together into a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create storage spaces.
Input the maximum size of the storage space.
Storage spaces is available in windows 10 pro and windows 10 home.
Removing drives from windows 10 storage spaces.
This desktop windows application calculates your self storage space needs.
This results in 0 tb of physical capacity and 0 tb of cache per node.