How to Resize RAID Partition without Data Losing


Do you come across the situation that the system partition C: drive is run out of place on the created RAID Array? Under this condition, the best solution is to resize your raid partition rather than to recreate the RAID.

What is RAID?

RAID – which stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, or sometimes alternatively Redundant Array of Independent Disk – is a technology that employs the simultaneous use of two or more hard disk drives to achieve greater levels of performance, reliability, and/or larger data volume sizes. It is used for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. Two major design goals of RAID are: increased data reliability and increased input/output performance.

There are various combinations of these approaches giving different trade-offs of protection against data loss, capacity, and speed, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 2, RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 (1+0). Among them, RAID levels 0, 1, and 5 are the most commonly found, and cover most requirements.

A hardware implementation of RAID requires at least a special-purpose RAID controller. You may use the tools from the manufacturer of your RAID controller to reconfigure the array. With that RAID controller, you are able to resize RAID partition. Resize RAID partition with partition software can ease the process.

EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition works well with all the hardware RAID, and supports a fortune of RAID controller, including IDE Raid controllers, SCSI, SAS, S-ATA Raid controllers, serial ATA host controllers and devices.

The user interface is easy to understand and pretty straight forward. It is designed to focus on operation accuracy and safety which enables you to resize your partitions on the RAID Array without losing data. All partition changes can be previewed before they are implemented on a hard drive, and all data is completely protected throughout the operation. For example, before deleting data off a disk, the program will clarify whether the user wants to delete the partition or erase every byte of data.

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