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I want to setup software raid 0 under Windows 10. There seems to be software RAID 0, Striped Dynamic Disk, Striped Storage Space in Windows 10, all of can do data striping across multiple disks. Based on my limited research, I couldn't find a clean explanation on what the difference, advantages and disadvantages of these three things is.
Could someone with good knowledge on the matter give a comparison?
very very good information, thank you! so this means dynamic disks is bootable, but no TRIM, while storage spaces has trim but isn't bootable? Is there any way to create a 'pure' Software RAID 0 under windows? – user1282931 – 2019-11-26T20:36:45.133
Storage Spaces is bootable with the right BIOS/UEFI (example).
– harrymc – 2019-11-26T20:44:10.037I did see that thread, but it seems that's just something microsoft can pull off themselves, isn't it? – user1282931 – 2019-11-26T20:54:21.527
Microsoft does not make the UEFI firmware. This is done by the manufacturer of the motherboard. – harrymc – 2019-11-26T20:56:15.117
but afaik UEFI usually just knows Fat32 anyway and launches bootmanager, which is on a Fat32 disk. From there bootmanager knows how to handle NTFS for example and boots up Windows on an NTFS partition. So, wouldn't just bootmanager need to know how to handle storage spaces? – user1282931 – 2019-11-26T20:59:27.840
UEFI firmware incorporates drivers for FAT32 and NTFS. But Storage Spaces is much more complex and requires accessing much more Windows stuff such as the registry. Not every firmware has that (yet). – harrymc – 2019-11-26T21:05:59.520