How to create and manage Storage Spaces right in Settings in Windows 10

Creating and managing Storage Spaces is the latest feature that Microsoft has brought into Settings in Windows 10. Previously, this feature required users to open the Control Panel and then use the old management interface to do so.

Trial builds of Windows 10 have been tried out the ability to create and manage Storage Spaces. In the near future, Microsoft will officially update this feature for all users. 

This tutorial will guide you how to create and manage Storage Spaces right in Windows 10 Settings. The steps are as follows:

1. Open the Settings app in Windows 10
2. Access the Systems section and select Storgae
3. Next, scroll down and select Manage Storare Spaces
4. Here, you can see the Storage Spaces on your machine

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With the new Storage Spaces, you have better options when it comes to storage management. For example, you can create a simple Storage Spaces or access a Storage pool of storage resources. When you create a new Storage pool, you can add Storage Spaces from multiple drives.

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What is Storage Spaces?

Storage Spaces helps protect data from hard drive failures and expand memory over time, as you add drives to your PC. You can use Storage Spaces to group two or more drives together in a storage pool and then use the space from that pool to create virtual drives called storage space. storage).

These storage spaces usually store two copies of the data, so if one of your drives fails, you still have an intact copy of the data. If you run out of space, simply add more drives to the storage pool.

Jessica Tanner

Update 08 January 2021