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Software RAID in storage spaces

Software RAID in storage spaces

- Hardware RAID may be a better option when you have a lot of money and when you need a lot of power. But today's increasingly more powerful CPUs make software RAID a real option. And by software RAID, I simply mean you're letting the operating system handle the RAID for you. Now, in this example, I'm going to use Windows and I'm going to show you a couple of ways that Windows does RAID. The first place to look is Disk Management. Here I am in Disk Management, and in this particular case I've installed a bunch of drives. Now you will notice that their capacities are really small. They're only like 50 gigabytes. I'm doing that on purpose because I want things to move quickly. But if you'll take a look you'll see I've got one, two, three, four, five drives installed. Now, Windows by itself is a little limited in what it can do RAID wise, but the two things it can do quite easily is RAID 0 and RAID 1. So for example, I'm…

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