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While Windows Home Server fans are still mourning the loss of Drive Extender, Windows 8 includes an even better implementation of this data redundancy and storage pooling feature. It's called Storage Spaces, and it's one of Windows 8 best features. 
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In a nutshell, Storage Spaces allow:
- Organization of physical disks into storage pools, which can be easily expanded by simply adding disks. These disks can be connected either through USB, SATA (Serial ATA), or SAS (Serial Attached SCSI). A storage pool can be composed of heterogeneous physical disks – different sized physical disks accessible via different storage interconnects.
- Usage of virtual disks (also known as spaces), which behave just like physical disks for all purposes. However, spaces also have powerful new capabilities associated with them such as thin provisioning (more about that later), as well as resiliency to failures of underlying physical media...
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