RAID 5 is a kind of memory property, data security and combination with storage cost
of storage solutions. RAID 5 can be regarded as a compromise project of RAID 0 and
RAID 1. RAID 5 provides data security for system, but the degree of protection is
lower than Mirror while utilization of disk space is higher than Mirror.
RAID 5 (block-level striping with distributed parity) requires at least three disks
to distribute parity along with the data and requires that all drives but one be
present to operate. The array is not destroyed by a single drive failure. On drive
failure, any subsequent reads can be calculated from the distributed parity.
RAID 5 is employed to speed up disk access contributed by several hard disks becoming
the most popular one. How to increase RAID 5 without data loss? It is well known to
us that many third-party partition managers do not support RAID disk array, but
fortunately, AOMEI
Partition Assistant is available for users to do operations over RAID 5.
AOMEI Partition Assistant Server Edition is an all-in-one partition software for
users who works on Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
, Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, Windows Small Business Server 2003, 2008, 2011,
Windows Home Server 2011, etc, which contains many basic and wonderful features,
such as resize/move
partition, wipe
disk/partition, convert dynamic disk back to basic
disk, dynamic
volume management, migrate OS to SSD/HDD, and more.
It also supports to all hardware RAID levels, such as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID
10, etc. Users can increase RAID 5 size with the help of Partition Assistant Server
without data loss. Here is guidance for increase RAID 5 size.

Tips: For Windows 7 users, AOMEI Partition
Assistant Pro Edition is the wonderful choice.