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Repartition raid

  • Raid is a common method used among the enterprises to manage disk. As the same as home users, enterprise users must repartition disk because partitions can't meet existing requirements during the process of using raid disk. As for home users, you can quickly recreate partition on disk with MiniTool Partition Wizard. So how can the enterprise users realize Repartition raid disk? You can also use the same partition magic to solve it. Many users who are not familiar with raid disk may be confused. Actually, Raid is a method to manage 2 or more disks, while home users generally use one single disk. So, obvious differences appear between the processes of repartitioning disks. You can totally set assured that although the great differences exist between them, the operations are totally the same when you execute repartitioning disk with MiniTool Partition Wizard. To further remove your confusion, let us learn more details about raid.

    What is raid?
    Raid is short for Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks, you can regard it as a method to use disk drive. It means cooperation of more than 2 physical disks which were used as one disk in logic. Compared with home user's management of single disk, raid has cooperative ability of data redundancy fault tolerance, completely improving the disk subsystem performance. Beyond that, with the advantages such as: low cost, low power consumption, and high transmission rate, Raid is widely used as one of the enterprise disk management methods. Raid has different ranks, including: raid 0, raid 1, raid 5, and the combination of them such as raid 10, which are most popular. Different kinds of raid provide different performances, so you can choose different raid solutions in view of your need.
    As our words above, though raid is a method to manage multiple disks, single disk is managed in logic. That is to say, you can just see a single disk in stead of multiple disks on the computer. This pattern makes it more convenient for us to manage multiple disks, so that enterprise users can repartition disk with the professional partition magic, MiniTool Partition Wizard.

    Suitable software selection is key to repartitioning raid disk
    Reasonable partition mode could help computer users to better manage disk data. On the contrary, unreasonable partition operation will cause disorder of the data management and potential risk of data loss. So, reasonable partition operation is quite important for enterprise users. However, no matter how reasonable the partition design is, as service time of the disk increases, the phenomenon that partition can't meet the need of data storage will appear. By this time, you have to repartition the disk. As for the enterprise users who use raid technology to manage disk, these factors should be considered carefully such as: function, compatibility, and security of the software, when they choose partition magic to execute repartition. So, I suggest using MiniTool Partition Wizard, a professional partition magic. MiniTool Partition Wizard can perfectly help you repartition the disk whether your server is Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008, and ensure the disk data security without causing data loss and data damage. Below demo displays how to repartition the raid disk with MiniTool Partition Wizard.

    How to repartition raid disk with MiniTool Partition Wizard
    As everyone knows, repartitioning means several or all partitions will be changed. So, before executing operations with MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can copy the disk data with its Copy Partition or Disk Partition function, enhancing your data security. Run the MiniTool Partition Wizard, below main interface of the software will appear:



    Disk 1 displayed in the main interface is managed by raid 0. If disk repartition is needed, select unallocated space in the disk, and then click "Create" button on the toolbar to enter below interface:



    On this interface, you can perform corresponding settings to properties of the new partition file system in view of your need, such as: file system, cluster size, and capability. As for resizing partition capability, two methods are provided, one is to drag horizontal rectangle bar, and another is to input detailed value to set partition capability. Settings are complete, click on "OK" button.



    After returning to the main interface, you can preview the effects of creating partition. If it is confirmed to be realized, please click on "Apply" button to complete partition creation with the help of MiniTooll Partition Wizard.
    MiniTool Partition Wizard can perfectly help home users manage the disks, and the same to enterprise users who use raid disk. Except repartition, MiniTool Partition Wizard can also provide many other powerful functions to manage raid disk. And you can learn more by visiting its official website http://www.partitionwizard.com.