Make a Home Storage Server, The Cheap and Easy Way!

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In this video I'll show you how to create a mass storage pool from multiple drives using Windows Storage Spaces. Then we'll attach the storage pool to your home network so you can access it from any computer or device.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Opener
0:46 - Intro
3:30 - Installing Drives
4:15 - Initializing Drives
4:57 - Creating a New Storage Pool
8:13 - Adding Data to the Pooled Storage
8:52 - Adding Another Drive & Troubleshooting
12:31 - Reacting to a Drive Failure
13:48 - Network and Sharing Settings
14:37 - Creating a Network Shared Drive
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@TedWilder 5 ай бұрын

You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find a simple tutorial on this. Everyone else is either a hobbyist or an IT pro looking to expand their homelab. More power to em but i just want a storage drive lol. Thanks SO much for making this simple and easy to understand for us noobs ❤

@RutvikPhatak 5 ай бұрын

I agree 100%, I wanted to do something simmilar and to even get to this video I had to search a bunch of different keywords

@khashayarr 2 жыл бұрын

You should do an rclone tutorial after this! It changed my backup life! I run a batch file with a hotkey after the workday is done and BAM synced to storage pool and Backblaze B2 in 2 minutes

@garryconnors8804 2 жыл бұрын

Bro, your tutorials are the best. Easy enough for an absolute beginner but not dumbed down so still great for an experienced person.

@MurphysTactical 2 жыл бұрын

Did this for a friend who lost their business computer data from a failed HDD (external drive backups stopped about 6 months prior). I built them a new system with 2x2TB drives running parity through Windows rather than hardware raid as I have had bad luck recovering from hardware raid failure. Windows made this very easy and you do a great job showing this!

@earthling_parth 2 жыл бұрын

This was an amazing beginner level tutorial that almost everyone can follow. I really appreciate you showing some troubleshooting steps for common errors. I'm a Linux systems administrator so even I learned something new about NAS and windows troubleshooting steps. Thanks CJ ♥️

@christophersmart1898 11 күн бұрын

Great video! Finally, a simply way explained for a mass storage. Thanks for the video!

@galengrassi4704 2 жыл бұрын

Bro your channel is awesome! Your presentations are always clearly communicated. Keep them going and Happy Holidays to you and yours.

@rager1969 14 күн бұрын

Heh heh, I've wanting to do this for years but wanted to do a lot of testing before "putting it into production" at home. After a bunch of putting it off and forgetting, I finally set up a test system, re-using some old drives to mess with. I hit both problems at 10:00 and figured the drive was bad. Good to see what I need to do since that's part of what I'm doing here - trying and learning. After I'm done fooling around adding/removing drives, I plan on using the actual brand-new disks on the test system and then do the ultimate test: move to another PC (the system I want to run it on). It's supposed to work. If it doesn't then I'll start over. But if it does work, then I have faith that I can recover from any failed component, including the computer. Then, I'll have a good affordable NAS that can grow leaving me with the next task, a good back up strategy.

@viralarchitect Жыл бұрын

HOW IS THIS THE FIRST TIME I'M HEARING ABOUT STORAGE POOLS IN WINDOWS???????? This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

@Bewefau 3 ай бұрын

because I think its called storage spaces and its only on windows 8 and maybe 10 plus servers.

@MarcioHuser 14 күн бұрын

I've knew about them on server editions since the window 8 era (we had machines on the company running windows server on mirrored drives by software) . I had no idea it was also available on Windows 10/11 until a couple of months ago

@maytronix7201 2 ай бұрын

I know this is two years old...but can you just say.... "forgediboudit" Or "dat foogn guy" Would make my year

@starbuck1776 2 жыл бұрын

I use a program called Drive Bender. It pools the drives, but you can duplicate data down to the folder level, meaning you can pick what data you want to have redundancy. I've got around 20 tb of mixed drives on an older pc that also is running Plex and Emby servers, and acts as my NAS.

@DevonDassaw 2 жыл бұрын

This video made me subscribe. Thanks for clarifying this whole thing. Now to find out how to implement what you’ve explained with my SSDs 👀

@TommyDrone 7 ай бұрын

This is an excellent video. Thanks so much. I'll be watching this again and agian.

@davetate1155 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, I was looking for a quick simple way to share a large pool of drives through out my home network, I dont want to build a full blown free nas server, this is just the quick simple thing i was looking for.

@VideoManFL 2 жыл бұрын

Very well done. Best explanation I hsve seen. Thanks

@OShackHennessy Жыл бұрын

Appreciate this video man it was really helpful

@abdurrakib5643 Жыл бұрын

Very nice and easy way to do. Thank you.

@jakewynn 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see the CJ64 in the background :)

@chiyolate 4 ай бұрын

Having resiliency is great, but I still prefer to have a separate mirror backup on a single external drive like those Seagate Desktop Expansion or the WD My Book in case of natural disaster or emergency situation, you can grab the backup drive and bring it with you.

@moneybilla 3 ай бұрын

Loekey a horrible idea, specially the wd one lmfao that's asking to grab ur ext. Drive only for it to not work since it's been sitting

@Ang197O 2 ай бұрын

Great tutorial! Also, Jack Sprat sat on a SATA. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment.

@iantaylor7992 Күн бұрын

Excellent, thank you for this superb tutorial. Easy to follow and to the point with no rambling on irrelevant topics. I echo the comment below "You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find a simple tutorial on this" by @TedWilder. Again thank you this was exactly what I was looking for🙂

@m.yonggipuriza4589 Жыл бұрын

Love your video bro. Thank you.

@cromikron2868 2 жыл бұрын

You mentioned that those beginner videos don't get watched as much because your audience, in general, is more advanced than these videos. However they are still highly appreciated by people like me :) Thanks

@michaelflores8023 5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Simple! Keep it up!

@juliennbitt3376 2 ай бұрын

so helpful and thank you

@user-uw9ir7fl8l 15 күн бұрын

this is awesome this is gettin archived lol thanks

@afkafkafk 2 жыл бұрын

I can't wait for the day to do this, I got a power mac g5 in storage that is dead (the PSU that is) but one day I will gut it and turn it into a Nas and server for small things

@Argent_99 2 жыл бұрын

Huh. I’ve been drivepooling my server with stablebit drivepool for a a few years now and never knew this was a feature in windows. Not likely to switch over (rebuilding 50tb of data? No thanks!) but this is really fascinating information.

@posmoo9790 2 ай бұрын

this is great even 2 years later.

@rager1969 14 күн бұрын

At 12:53, that's good to know. I will make sure to create a folder to share rather than share the root.

@obhush 5 ай бұрын

Great video. I was considering building a NAS using TrueNAS scale but I was concerned about the need for specialized RAM and lack of flexibility of adding new storage within ZFS. Windows seems to be the right choice for me. But can you cover how to run this server headless?

@donatedflea 5 ай бұрын

perfect thx

@T3hBeowulf 2 жыл бұрын

TIL: Windows has native storage support. I thought all of these features perished with the discontinuation of Windows Home Server. Neat!

@eiriktyvold3668 Жыл бұрын

what kinda of read/write speeds do you get with this system? great vid btw :D

@thehatter0319 24 күн бұрын

Hihi! This is really useful! But I got a question. Let's say my PC has all the drive bays maxed out with all of the hdds having some stuff in there alr. Now if I want to remove one of the hdds to replace it with one that is higher in capacity what should I do? Esp if I have two way mirror on?

@avinashrajan275 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Bro, It was Nice video , thank you , i have question here what will happen in case OS crashed and Installed new OS will be data remains safe and storage configuration will be same as earlier or all data invisible.

@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

You can reinstall windows or move your storage pool to another windows PC and it will be recognized as a storage pool and all the data will be intact.

@deantewhite1591 3 ай бұрын

Love your video. Very informative. I have 1 question. I have 8tb of storage and only wanted to make 5 accessible by password. How would I do that?

@TurtlesOnIce 2 ай бұрын

@ElevatedSystems - would it be possible to easily set this new drive pool up to he accessable when i am not home?

@HansRiveraCreations Жыл бұрын

i know theres other services like TrueNAS but is there a way i can access this shared drive outside my home network?

@Mister_Samuel_T_Owen 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a reliable PCI-e Sata expansion card that you would recommend? Online reviews are these cards all seem to indicate a coin flip....

@vikasrai338 11 күн бұрын

Great but I wonder how to ensure (a) data security through ransomwares, viruses etc. on network (b)share it over internet and be available on other os like Linux, android.

@andre0000000007 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much, awesome video and thx for simulating failures too. one thing you did not cover is how would you know which 4tb HD failed? in your example you pulled the sata, but in real world you would not know which one failed and they don't have disk names (unallocated when installed) so how would you know which HD to replace? thx

@ElevatedSystems Жыл бұрын

You can find it by the serial number.

@andre0000000007 Жыл бұрын

@@ElevatedSystems thank you 👍

@sysdrum 2 жыл бұрын

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@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, KZfaq hasn't graced me with the Join or Super Thanks options yet.

@sysdrum 2 жыл бұрын

@@ElevatedSystems Understood.

@TarianJEDTech 2 жыл бұрын

I am curious why you choose to do parity on SMR drives? There are some major potential for recovery time issues with SMR drives when using parity. -- Oops they are CMR Would have been nice to see you fully simulate the recovery part of the process (show recover time and such) so people could see what is typical during that type of situation.

@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

Seagate only uses SMR in their Baracuda drives. All their Ironwolf NAS drives are CMR.

@TarianJEDTech 2 жыл бұрын

@@ElevatedSystems Oh, my bad!

@3B0. 2 жыл бұрын

Can i access it frome my phone?

@jsengxx 3 ай бұрын

Is there a way to add VPN to this so you will be able to access the files while outside of the network?

@OShackHennessy Жыл бұрын

I have 3 SSD’s set up with storage spaces in parity and it works fine but they’re attached using a USB dock. Does anyone know how to tell which one is which assuming one goes bad?

@Bewefau 3 ай бұрын

Another question. Does this work with a none internet connection active ?

@imtiazsyed8716 4 ай бұрын

Does anyone know how to access this type of storage from a different network - outside of home?

@Bewefau 3 ай бұрын

What windows did you use ? And what windows will this NOT work on ?

@mdabrarbappy2378 11 ай бұрын

Everything is fine n all. I appreciate the video, but one thing is kinda funny when you say very cheap and even free and pull out those seagate Ironwolf😢

@AlexUnknown37 2 жыл бұрын

I have some questions. FIrst off, is Storage pool new? Its just weird that a bunch of people this year has talked about converting old PC into nas. alright real question time, I know there are cool nas software that I think you have even talked about where you can share a file from your nas with someone on the internet. Can someone do this on a windows nas? also any recommendations on software to use? I wanted the ltt video and grabbed "Winaero Tweaker" but don't really know what features are good to have. I use parsec to connect to the nas when I need to.

@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

No its not new at all and Parsec is a good option to remotely access your system. You can map your network drive so anyone you want can access it from outside your local network. It is very easy to do in Windows however, many people will also have to also configure settings in their router. This will be different depending on your router so I didn't cover that.

@Oxigono_publications Жыл бұрын

Question: My motherboard fails, or my cpu fails and I change MB and CPU. How can I get the data from those drives? In a single drive I just plug it in my new system.

@ElevatedSystems Жыл бұрын

Just plug the drives into any windows system and it will recognize the pool.

@kickaboob 2 жыл бұрын

What happens if your PC fails but the pooled drives are still fine? Is it possible to transfer the drives to another PC with the data still accessible?

@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, put them all in another windows PC and it will recognize the pool.

@kickaboob 2 жыл бұрын

@@ElevatedSystems Thanks!!

@luongthienkhoi2694 Жыл бұрын

@@ElevatedSystems what happens with my pooled drives (and data insided) if I reinstall Windows?

@mysticfiedsnow 5 ай бұрын

how would you port forward it

@catalinandro3913 Ай бұрын

Presuming the motherboard or cpu fails, and the OS needs to be rebuilt or reinstalled, is there any way to recover the parity HDD configuration and restore your data on a new system?

@ElevatedSystems Ай бұрын

You can move the storage pool to any Windows system and it will be recognized.

@rayirth.upside-down 2 жыл бұрын

Just why youtube why you don't have to send me a friggin notification that he uploaded just whyyyyyy, that's it Susan or whoever will pay for it

@bbhbhbh6631 5 ай бұрын

how to solve "storage space cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters supported by the file system" proplem ?

@earthling_parth 2 жыл бұрын

In simple mode, if one drive fails do we really lose data on ALL the drives? I thought we would only lose data on one drive even when running RAID 0/simple mode on windows.

@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

You can probably recover some data but as far as I know you won't be able to do it within the OS. You would need a third party tool. However, officially, according to the Microsoft documentation a drive failure results in total data loss

@earthling_parth 2 жыл бұрын

@@ElevatedSystems oh, okay. I didn't know that. Thanks for the reply CJ 👍

@kataseiko 2 жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial. But I have a feeling that this man never right-clicked the start button.

@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks and you're right. I usually just use the Win+X shortcut. However, I teach the search bar as it can be used for all windows Programs and Settings.

@johntalbert8227 5 ай бұрын

I never had, just did it. Thank you for showing me something new.

@MoeOverload1 2 ай бұрын

This worked for a second but now it just shows media files and won’t let me share anything can’t seem to figure it out

@gmailaaaa 7 ай бұрын

How to make Windows notify me of any drive failure in the pool?

@NTATchannelNickTaylor 5 ай бұрын

One way , use the "Task Scheduler" find \Microsoft\Windows\DiskDiagnostic, and set the task named "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticResolver" to enabled, it is disabled by default.

@cichi_nandi 11 ай бұрын

why not work for me ... i make step by step and dident see my " pool " sistem... 1 pc its see but cant acceses... and rest 2 pc and 2 laptops dident see .. why ?..

@MarcioHuser 14 күн бұрын

Wait! Why 3-way mirroring requires 5 drives? Was it a mistake? 🤔

@ElevatedSystems 14 күн бұрын

To create a three-way mirror space in Windows Storage Spaces, you need at least five physical disks. This protects against 2 drive failures.

@MarcioHuser 14 күн бұрын

@@ElevatedSystems Hmm, odd math. I think I will research why is that. thanks

@MarcioHuser 14 күн бұрын

Found my answer... I wonder who would use 3-way mirror, as it lose too much space for "quorum", because the formula is 3n+2 drives, to have n drives available for storage. Using 5 disks to have space of 1, for the minimum setup, is crazy! 😅

@Alex4n3r 2 жыл бұрын

Don't buy drives from the same batch. In this way you mitigate simultaneous failing drives.

@ElevatedSystems 2 жыл бұрын

The average consumer won't be able to controll this other then buying drives from different vendors, but I can say I bought all my Seagate drives from Amazon at the same time and all of them have separate lot numbers.