Partitioning a RAID 0 Configuration AND Changing Drive Letters

Greetings!   I have an Alienware computer which I intend to use mainly for high-end music production, with two hard-drives in RAID 0 configuration and I was wondering if it would be advantageous to partition the drive, considering that all data is already being "striped" to both disks.   Also, if it would indeed prove to be beneficial to partition the drive, I would want to rename the drives "C", "D", "E" simply make it more logical and easier to recall in my mind where my programmes and data are located. However, the optical disc drive is already named "D". Therefore, what will happen if I rename all my partitions and then reassign the disc drive to "F" (for example)? Would there be any untoward consequences of that procedure?   Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Mmmm partitioning

Since Windows gave it a letter you would need to change it first. Let say you have C, D and E used. You would change D to something like F. That would free D so you could rename it. BUT this can cause issues. Some programs may already be looking for something on that driver letter and it may not know what to do. Understand? You may need to point your programs to the new drive letter and it's a pain. 

If it was me I wouldn't change drive letters. For your music files and what not just make folders. Making a partition won't help you any unless you decide to reinstall the OS then it will not write over the other partitions which would save your data. If that is a worry then I would delete the raid and use one drive for the OS and another for storage.  You could also go buy another HDD just for storage. It wont hurt the Raid -0 any doing a partition if that is your question but there is no real benefit to doing it.

If it was me I would buy another drive for my files. Raid-0 gives no protection. It's faster but if it fails it fails hard. Everything can be lost. Buy another drive and let windows give it a drive letter. Then rename it something like Storage Drive 1. The letter won't matter much to you then.

If you are hell bent on changing the letters then I can give you step by step directions on doing it. It's not that hard to do. But if you find funky things going on remember I warned you lol

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your prompt assistance and advice!

It seems my intuition was (yet again) correct. I think I will leave my system as it is and just use folders instead of partitions.

However, if anybody else here has other advice, I am still open to new suggestions.