I'm starting a Storage Spaces Pool for backup using a total of 4 identical drives, but I'm not sure exactly how set it up.

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JonDenver

I'd like to have 1 drive stored unused to replace any failed drives, 2 mirrored drives installed in my PC, a forth drive with a quarterly copy of the mirrored data that will stored physically in another offsite location. That fourth drive would be brought back every quarter to the PC and exchanged with one from the pool.It seems if I create the mirrored pool with 2 drives, adding a third erases the data on that drive, and then removing a drive from the pool also erases its data. How I setup the pool? Do I create a mirror with 3 drives, and then just take the third drive out of the PC without

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