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Mauro Huculak

How to span storage to multiple drives on Windows 11

Windows 11 Storage Spaces settings.

On Windows 11, if you have multiple hard drives, you can combine them into a single large volume to avoid fragmenting your data manually across those drives.

You can accomplish this configuration in multiple ways using the legacy Disk Management tool or the modern Settings app. If you want to use Disk Management, you can use the "Spanned" or "Striped" feature when creating a new volume. Both options offer similar functionality but use different methods to write data to the hard drive.

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