
In principle, arrays are most often used in a commercial environment, but if you, as an individual user, are interested in data security and improving system performance, you can create for yourself a RAID 5 on Windows 10. RAID 5 works with a wide variety of file systems, including FAT, FAT32, and NTFS. If a hardware failure occurs, you can easily replace the drive then the data will be created again from the data on the other drives. In general, RAID 5 can be configured with three or more disks with a fairly efficient mechanism for distributing data: volume striping with parity. This article will discuss RAID 5 on the Windows 10 operating system, as additional issues may arise with setting up such an array. Not sure if it will boot windows afterwards, or if I will be able to create partitions after that.RAID is a combination of several drives to improve file performance and security. If I leave the 4TB as a single unallocated space and hit next, it is installing (at this moment). When I do that, I see the ~4TB as a single unallocated space, but once I create a partition, it shows me the 2 unallocated spaces again and I can't install, I receive an error from windows. I have now tried booting the installer, hitting Shift+F10, and using diskpart to convert to GPT. I do this, and when I am inside windows I can't do nothing with the second unallocated space. The two items at the bottom are the 2 parts of the disk (I believe this is due to MBR limiting the size to 2TB) and then when I choose the first unallocated space to create a 300GB partition for windows, the other one above is created automatically. This is what I see in the windows installer: THe weirdest thing is that I can't even initialize the disk: I installed the operating system and it shown 2 disks during installation, and it now still displays 2. I installed a Windows Server 2016 in a physical server with RAID 10 (LSI card), whose configuration is shown below:Įven though the RAID configuration shows one 3.725 TB drive, this shows up as 2 disks in windows.
