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Fast, flexible and secure data storage is easy to set up with Windows 8’s Storage Spaces feature. Darien Graham-Smith shows you how to get started.
Storage Spaces is a new feature in Windows 8 (and its server counterpart, Windows Server 2012) that could change the way you save and access files. The technology lets you combine the storage capacity of multiple disks into storage “pools”, then carve them up however you like to create any number of bespoke virtual disks. To be precise, it’s these virtual disks that Microsoft refers to as storage spaces.