How to Create a 2 GB partition with RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5 configuration in Windows Server?

RAID is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk components into one or more logical units for the purpose of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both. For creating a RAID configuration you need to have a basic idea, of how we can create a Virtual disk and attach it to the storage. In this article, we are going to practically learn to make a RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 configuration. The pre-requisite for it is that at least three Virtual Disks are attached to the storage so that all the three RAID configurations can be performed. 

Steps to follow for configuring RAID

Step 1: Open disk management(diskmgmt.msc). It opens the Disk Management console. You'll be able to see three Virtual Hard disks attach to the existing storage. 

Step 2: Select one of the disks, right-click on it, and select New Striped Volume. The Stripped  Volume is for RAID 0 configuration. A new simple volume wizard would open to configure its settings.

Step 3: Add two disks for RAID 0 configuration. We are adding to the disk because we at least require two disks for the RAID 0 configuration. 

Step 4: Type the amount of space as 2048 MB ~ 2 GB and click on Next. The space that would be used on each disk to make the data mirrored from one disk to the other.

Step 5: Assign a drive letter and click Next. It provides the name of the partition so that, it could be distinguished.

Step 6: Select the partitioning as NTFS and click Next. We'll go with the default option in the scenario, and if required we can change it.

Step 7: Confirmation wizard would appear to click on Finish. It contains all the settings list that you applied for the configuration.

 Step 8: Click on Yes to complete the creation of RAID 0 volume. It can take some time to make the changes.  

Our Raid 0 Volume of 2 GB is created with Disk 1 and Disk 2. This means whenever data is stored on a Disk 1 then the same could be seen in Disk 2 as well.

Step 9: Repeat the same steps(from 3 steps) but this time selects New Mirrored volume and assign a different drive letter.

A new drive F: with RAID 1 configuration and size 2 GB would be created. Creating RAID volume can take some time.

Step 10: Repeat the same steps but this time selecting New RAID-5 Volume and adding three disks instead of two. Here we require three disks because the RAID 5 configuration requires at least three disks because of parity. 

A Disk partition of 2 GB with RAID 5 configuration is created. The creation of RAID can take some time and with this, we learned practically to implement RAID configuration.