Help me partition my drives!

If you've already partitioned and formatted and you want to make some adjustments to your partition sizes and/or placement, I recommend Paragon Partition Manager. When I first set up my OS-only partition, I didn't allot enough space. Rather than re-format and do everything over again, I just used this program to give an extra 10 gigs from one of my larger partitions.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The idea of setting up a RAID on a home PC is rather a waste (Well, Raid 0 atleast). In Raid 0, your read and write speeds should theoretically be halved, but actuall performance in real-life applications is not as such. A performance increase would most likely be noticed on a server with a large network of arrays. On a home PC though, the few seconds gained (or lost) is not worth doubling the chance of losing data. In Raid 1, The pros outweigh the cons, but for many people, the actual gain is not worth it. Taken from the aforementioned article:

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The same feature that provides the protection can also be the user's downfall. RAID 1 maintains a faithful copy on the second disk of everything that's on the first. Warts and all. Mistakes made, files irrecoverably deleted, virus caused issues, shredding etc are all duplicated on the second disk. Users tend to forget that RAID 1 does not protect against errors, it protects only against one disk going faulty.

Raid is awesome, but take it with a grain of salt. For many people, a good set of drives without RAID is a much performance as they'd want. For others (users who do video/audio editing, or something where the harddrive is constantly being accessed), raid can prove more efficient and reliable.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Render

RAID 0 definitely doesn't halve your read and write speeds. It should be close to doubling them.

Sorry, I had my words mixed up. What I meant was the time it takes to do things would [theoretically] be halved.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.