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Storage Pool - Software

Hello
I have several HDD that I want to combine into one single drive with all space combined (storage pool)
I know that Windows has a storage pool utility in the config panel but was wondering if it's better to use a third party software, and if yes, which is the best?
Thanks

John Tsioumpris

It seems that for Enterprise usage FreeNas is the free "defacto"
Also Rockstor is catching up quickly and it has a better UI

rindi

The Storage spaces which you get with Windows 10 is fine. You just can't use it with the system drive.With it you get something similar to RAID, So this also helps to protect against disk failures. It uses a new file-system (ReFS) which is better than NTFS, It helps to protect against file-system corruptions so you shouldn't need to run chkdsk on it. It also improves performance, beating most hardware RAID controllers...

All this of course still doesn't mean that you shouldn't backup.

Jean-Christophe GALLAND

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Rindi:
The HDD I am planning to group are empty but already formatted as NTFS. From your post, Windows Storage pool uses ReFS. So what will happen when I select and use my NTFS drives??

rindi

Change the file-system to ReFS (I've only tested Storage spaces once some time ago, so I don't remember exactly how it was done, but I think you get asked about what to use when you set up the Storage spaces.

Jean-Christophe GALLAND

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FreeNAS is an operating system. What I am looking for is just a storage pool management software to be used within Windows 10

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Jean-Christophe GALLAND

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Finally tried DriveBender and works fine. Thanks