Best software RAID or pool management for Windows?

[Bunford]

I have 4 x 18TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro hard drives and a TerraMaster D6-320 enclosure.

I have 18TB total combination of NVMe and SSDs internally within my desktop.

I am hoping to use the external enclosure and drives as an external backup and storage space.

What is the best way to set up with decent read and write speeds? The enclosure is USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps and has no hardware RAID.

Is there any software RAID solution I can use? And ideally, one that will let me switch enclosure over to my laptop too and still be usable in the same way.

 

[Superzuber]

if you want to keep it simple you can basic raid array1/10/5 with windows disk management and it will work on another windows system
for pool management windows got storage spaces which which is more advanced but may need some powershell commands to get what you want
what kind of raid depends what do you prefer, raid5 (3+1) for most capacity or raid10 for best write speed

 

[unwind-protect]

The future, ZFS it is.

 

[Octavean]

Storage Spaces
Stablebit Drivepool
DriveBender
SnapRAID

 

[iameatingjam]

Yeah I would also like to know. I've always just used computer management and its never failed on me, ever. But the thing is, then you can't trim. I've heard you can trim with board level raids, but I also hear they break easier. While not the end of the world, I'd still rather avoid.

Also... what is with microsoft's 'manage storage spaces' its supposed to be like raid I guess but I've never been able to get hardly and performance benefit out of it. Am I using it wrong? Idk.