Can external disks be removed from W8 Storage Spaces and attached to another PC?
I’ve been reading about the new Windows 8 Storage Spaces feature and trying to decide whether it will do what I would like to do. There’s lots of information about setting up Storage Spaces but not much that’s clear to me about how to remove a disk from Storage Spaces. I’ll describe what I would like to do and then ask if anybody knows whether Storage Spaces will do it.
What I would like to do is to attach an external hard disk to a PC, then have Storage Spaces create and maintain a copy of the data from the PC’s hard disk on the external hard disk. As far as I can tell, this is part of the purpose of Storage Spaces, and so I assume that this is possible (and perhaps even easy).
Then, at the end of the week, I want to remove this external hard disk with the backup data intact and store that hard disk in an off-site location. After removing the external hard disk, I want to attach a second external hard disk and have Storage Spaces create and maintain a backup copy on the second external hard disk.
Then, at the end of the 2nd week, I want to swap the external hard disks, and continue with that procedure so that there is always an external hard disk with a backup copy of the data intact and offsite.
This procedure implies that the data on the backup disks would be accessible if necessary on another PC where the other PC might be running Windows 7 or Windows XP.
Will Storage Spaces do all of the above procedure, part of it, or not much of it at all? Thanks in advance for any comments.
