Accelerate Storage Spaces with SSDs in Windows 10 Storage Pool tiers
Create Storage Spaces in Windows 10 Windows Server O/S contains Storage Spaces support for Server Spaces tiered storage. You can front slower spinning disks with smaller faster SSDs. Windows 10 has a Storage Spaces GUI Control Panel that does not include the tiered storage GUI. This means Powershell must be used for all configuration. https://github.com/freemansoft/win10-storage-spaces contains scripts that create tiered storage pools that integrate SSDs as caching drives and HDDs as storage drives. They assume you have at least one SSD and one HDD. The scripts automatically find all raw drives and add them to the pool. Some HDDs have their types incorrectly identified. The script can coerce them to be MediaType:HDD The entire virtual drive is added to the system as a single large volume You need at least 1 SSD and 1 HDD to run cached storage / Simple resiliency 2 SSD and 2 HDD to run cached storage / Mirror resiliency / 1 SSD and 2 HDD to run cached storage / Simpl...