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mirror array, so you can lose one or more drives and still save your

data. The number of drives in the array determines which mirror

options you have. A two-way mirror requires at least two drives; a

three-way mirror requires five or more. Mirror spaces work like RAID

1 or RAID 10, providing excellent redundancy and resiliency, and

robust performance.

• Parity spaces add another layer of resiliency to the array, similar to

how a RAID 5 or RAID 6 provides redundancy. The added resiliency

comes with both an upside and a downside. The good thing about

parity spaces is that they are more space efficient than two-way

mirroring. In two-way mirroring, for every 10 GB of data to be stored,

20 GB of storage must be installed. With parity spaces, for every 10

GB of stored data, only 15 GB of storage needs to be installed. The

downside is that the performance overhead to manage parity spaces

can have a significant impact on overall performance. Microsoft

recommends using parity spaces for big files that don’t change a lot,

like your movie collection. You can lose one drive and recover in a

three-drive parity space. It takes a seven-drive parity space (at

minimum) to enable you to recover from a two-drive loss.

When a disk fails in a space, Storage Spaces sends a warning through the

standard Windows Action Center messaging. You can open Storage Spaces

to reveal the failed drive and replace the drive readily.

EXAM TIP A storage pool is a collection of physical drives that enables

you to flexibly add and expand capacity. Storage spaces are virtual drives that

are created from storage pool free space. Storage spaces have resiliency and

fixed provisioning.

Storage Spaces enables you to do one more very cool action: future-proof

your storage needs. The thin provisioning feature means you can create a

space with more capacity than your current physical drives provide. You

might have a storage pool composed of two 2-TB drives and one 3-TB drive,

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