Windows 8 to feature 'Storage Spaces'

BANGALORE, INDIA: The new Windows 8, slated for launch later this year, will feature 'Storage Spaces' that will 'improve how you manage large volumes of storage within the operating system, notes Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky in a blog post on the Building Windows 8 blog.

"We’ve all tried the gamut of storage solutions, from JBOD arrays, to RAID boxes, or NAS boxes. Many of us have been using Windows Home Server Drive Extender and have been hoping for an approach architected more closely as part of NTFS and integrated with Windows more directly. In building the Windows 8 storage improvements, we set out to do just that and developed Storage Spaces" he adds.

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He also notes that the existing storage solutions will continue to work fine in Windows 8.

"Moreover, the new Windows 8 Storage Spaces features allow you to group physical disk together into pools, which can then be divided into pools. Which can then be formatted using a regular filesystem and used the same as regular disks," he adds.