Storage Spaces are being added to the coming Windows 8 Beta and can be tried out in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Microsoft will introduce in Windows 8 what it calls Storage Spaces – a method of putting drives into a virtual pool from which self-healing virtual disks can be created, with some resemblance to ZFS features.ĭetails of these virtual disks – the aforementioned Storage Spaces – were described in a 4,400-word deep-dive blog post on Thursday, introduced by Microsoft Windows Division head, Steven Sinofsky, and written by a member of Redmond’s Storage and File System team, Rajeev Nagar.
Post from Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg on the new function in Windows 8 ‘Storage Spaces’