Nowadays, RAID is widely used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. Many server users also like it. Partition RAID is a good way to greatly optimize and maximize the performance of their Windows server computers on RAID. How to partition RAID array reliably? Firstly, we should learn some knowledge of RAID.
RAID is an acronym first defined by David A. Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, and Randy Katz at the University of California in 1987. It describes a redundant array of inexpensive disks. RAID is a technology that allowed computer users to achieve high levels of storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive components, via the technique of arranging the devices into arrays for redundancy.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It is a system developed whereby a large number of low cost hard drives can be linked together to form a single large capacity storage device that offered superior performance, storage capacity and reliability over older storage solutions. It has been widely used and deployed method for storage in the enterprise and server markets, but over the past 5 years has become much more common in end user systems.
The standard RAID levels are a basic set of RAID configurations and employ striping, mirroring, or parity. The standard RAID levels can be nested for other benefits. The most common standard RAID levels are RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5. Below is the picture of RAID 5.

The RAID is popular among Windows Server users because of the superior performance and large capacity storage. How to partition RAID on Windows server? I recommend EaseUS Partition Master Server Edition- third party RAID partitioning manager, which is compatible with all levels of hardware RAID and provides reliable solution to partition RAID on Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32 and 64 bit systems.

This program is especially designed to satisfy the RAID partition manager demands, including resize and move partitions, extend system partition, copy partition, copy disk, format partitions, convert partitions and so on. And it allows users to create a bootable CD/DVD to manage Windows Server partitions when boot fails caused by virus or any other unexpected accidents.
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