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In Storage Spaces, the disk you add to a storage pool must be blank and unformatted. The pool needs to take control of the entire physical disk to manage its space for the virtual disks it will create, so there should be no partitions or file systems on that disk. If a disk already has data or partitions, you’d have to wipe it before adding it to the pool, otherwise the pool can’t claim the disk and you’d risk data loss. Once the disk is in the pool, you then create virtual disks inside the pool and format them as NTFS or ReFS. The size or brand of the disk isn’t a requirement; the key point is that the disk is blank and unformatted.