Windows Server 2016 uses Storage Spaces, a storage technology that helps protect your data in case of a drive failure. It combines the capacity of multiple disks to create a storage pool, and then uses this increased, combined storage capacity to create Storage Spaces. A Storage Space is a software-defined storage: a pool, a volume, a disk, or a virtual hard disk that is resilient, flexible, and expandable. Storage Spaces are also supported on Windows 10. They can be used in the following ways in Windows Server 2016:
- With all storage in a single, standalone server
- In a cluster, with a storage attached locally to each node, using Storage Spaces Direct
- In a cluster, with SAS drives placed in one or more enclosures