Can I use Windows Dynamic disks or Storage Spaces with FuzeDrive?

Can I use Windows Dynamic disks or Storage Spaces with FuzeDrive?

Unfortunately, you cannot use a Dynamic disk as a constituent disk in a FuzeDrive. Dynamic disks are not true block level devices which FuzeDrive requires to function correctly. They are more like filesystem-level devices.

Storage Spaces devices are not permitted in any of the client releases of FuzeDrive, but as Storage Spaces devices do present themselves as block level devices, they may be allowed in a future release.

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