Partitioning raid 0 drive

[AbsoluteZero175]

I recently bought a new laptop with raid 0 configured by default. (512+512) There's only one drive (C drive) but I would like to create partitions. Is it possible with raid configuration? If so how? 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Go into disk management and right click the C: volume and select shrink volume. Once it's shrunk by however much you want to, you can create new partitions/volumes from the unallocated space. 

[AbsoluteZero175]

On 7/17/2021 at 10:12 PM, Oshino Shinobu said:

Go into disk management and right click the C: volume and select shrink volume. Once it's shrunk by however much you want to, you can create new partitions/volumes from the unallocated space. 

I know that that is the process for normal drives, just wanted to confirm that it's the same for raid0 configurations 

[TargetDron3]

Why Raid 0 then partition to have two drives?  Raid 0 gives you no protection of your data. It infact increases your risk of data loss as if one drive dies the whole raid set is gone. 

The procedure to partition is no different because windows sees it as one drive. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 hour ago, AbsoluteZero175 said:

I know that that is the process for normal drives, just wanted to confirm that it's the same for raid0 configurations 

Yep it's the same. If it's done through an onboard RAID controller, Windows will just see it as a single drive so the process doesn't change.

[AbsoluteZero175]

18 hours ago, TargetDron3 said:

Why Raid 0 then partition to have two drives?  Raid 0 gives you no protection of your data. It infact increases your risk of data loss as if one drive dies the whole raid set is gone. 

The procedure to partition is no different because windows sees it as one drive. 

Mine came configured as raid by default when I bought it and I didn't bother to change it so...