Greg

Is this hardware or software RAID?

If hardware - no problem, it acts as one large disk, just use Disk
Management to create three partitions.

If software - create three RAID5 volumes, one at a time, using Disk
Management.

Best regards

Bjorn
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Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)

"Greg" wrote:

>I would like to set up a RAID5 array. I need to have separate drive letters
>with in the array.
>
>For example: Create an raid 5 array, then assign drive letters. E:\ for
>administration, F:\ for technical F:\ for support.
>
>Is it possible to make partitions with in the RAID array?
>
>All your help is apreceated, thanks in advance!

While Bjorn is correct that this is possible, it is usually better with
hardware RAID to create individual LUNs each with a single partition and
single volume. We find people want the capability to do different things
with each "dataset" granularly. This is especially true in SAN (iSCSI or FC)
where fast recovery solutions are becoming available.

By implementing your storage design/layout/configuration this way, you
enable this capability and have the most flexibility in your storage design
to make change in the future. If you do not implement this way and in the
future you want granularity, then you would need to move all of the data
from only volume to a new single volume. Depending on amount of data and
user uptime requirements, this may or may not be a weekend at work.

Single LUN, single partition, single volume in hardware also enables you the
ability to grow the LUN and partition/volume using basic disks and either
the array vendor application to grow the LUN and diskpart extend to grow the
volume. Basic disks are also supported in clusters for failover.

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"Bjorn Landemoo" wrote in message
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> Greg
>
> Is this hardware or software RAID?
>
> If hardware - no problem, it acts as one large disk, just use Disk
> Management to create three partitions.
>
> If software - create three RAID5 volumes, one at a time, using Disk
> Management.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bjorn
> --
> Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)
>
> "Greg" wrote:
>
>>I would like to set up a RAID5 array. I need to have separate drive
>>letters
>>with in the array.
>>
>>For example: Create an raid 5 array, then assign drive letters. E:\ for
>>administration, F:\ for technical F:\ for support.
>>
>>Is it possible to make partitions with in the RAID array?
>>
>>All your help is apreceated, thanks in advance!
>