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If you are using Hardware RAID 0 yes, you would have to build the drive in BIOS first then mount it in your current windows, load up a cloan tool and mirror to the new RAID 0 Drive. To make it bootable you need to ensure you have the appropriate settings in BIOS to enable RAID mode for booting (might very for Dif motherboards). Using software RAID like the RAID I describe in this video won't work for that purpose. However if you use the ASUS HYPER X card yes you can absolutely do that in RAID 0. Just remember RAID 0 does not have redundancy, though it will make things much faster, especially running through your bus. Make sure your processor has enough PCIe lans to handle it or you'll end up bottlenecking either the RAID array or you GPU (that card runs on PCIe x16, to get its speeds. It will use up PCIe lanes. Otherwise it should work fine.

Well I would guess, since its software controlled... your motherboard isn't going to be able to read it, so, the bootloader wouldn't know what to do. But thats just a guess. You shouldn't use raid 0 for boot disk anyway. Use it as a secondary drive. Have something more reliable for boot disk.

You can try making it in your bios if it yours supports it ( mine doesn't -_-)

Nothing happens to the drives in any of the configurations. You can just rebuild windows or even move the discs to another windows system and the structure will remain intact.

If you are using a hardware based RAID controller, like say an ASUS hyper m.2 expansion card, or something similar, when you build the array in the bios and the system recognizes it, that is step 1. Step 2 is going into your OS and actually downloading the appropriate RAID array (top & bottom) control drivers for the OS (its specific to chipsets). Then you rebuild the same raid array in the OS system. If you did that and its still slow, you may have inadvertently plugged the array into an X8 PCIE vs an X16 PCIE lane on the board, or you may have used a RAID type that doesn't provide a speed increase (e.g. RAID 5) to provide an example. Let me know what you did to set up your RAID array as best you can. Now if your motherboard has a built in RAID controller (some do, like my own board, though I don't use it) then you need to ensure your RAID control drivers for your motherboard are functioning properly. Also with Hardware Based RAID you really want to make sure you are using the same exact disk across the array. For example if you have a Intel Optane SSD 960 (nvme) and your raid controller has space for 4x nvme drives, you'd want all 4 of those drives to be Intel Optane SSDs. Otherwise the system will use the slowest drive in the group as a base, or it may not work at all. Also with RAID 1, you will typically get slower write times, but you may end up with read times as fast or faster than RAID 0. The difference between the two is that RAID 1 using a mirroring feature, while RAID 0 uses a striping feature. Striping means the data is split evenly across all disks (makes it very quick to write to) however in RAID 1 the data is mirrored across each disk (so effectively you have x number of drives in your RAID and you install 1 program multiply that 1 program *X to get the number of copies stored in your RAID 1). Also the more disks in the array the faster (typically, not always the case, it depends on function and type of RAID). Hope this helps.

@@thetechnologyconcierge6614 hm I see. thanks for the reply and explanation. I wasnt expecting less performance with a raid1 (as opposed to a single hard drive) but I guess it makes sense since it has to write everything twice. I changed my build to raid0 to hopefully see some improvement. windows still recognizes it as a hdd not two ssds but at least I'm not getting hdd speeds. btw it's a fake raid within the bios. idk if my motherboard has raid built in. it's complicated to explain and I'm not 100% sure I'm using the correct terms when I say 'fake raid'. all I'm saying is I didn't buy a separate raid controller. I'm just using whatever the Asus B450m-A offers out of the box.

@@thetechnologyconcierge6614 do u think it would give more performance to set the two ssds as 'raidable', then install windows, then follow your steps in this video to make a raid0? or would it be better to make a raid0, install windows and leave it as is

@@lcvenusaur2168 Well that would depend on what you want to do. The simplest thing to do is use software RAID and an Expansion card to bolster performance by following my video guide...but.... Personally, if you want the most performance and you are not concerned about data redundancy, then I would utilize a hardware RAID controller like the ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 4.0 X4 Expansion Card ($70-80) and build a RAID that way. However this gets tricky. The video I have is for Software based RAID, hardware and software RAID are different and Hardware Raid can get tricky. Also making a bootable RAID array may get complicated and can be catastrophic if ever an update goes poorly. See this resource www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-in-raid-0-using-windows-10s-storage-spaces-feature In my system I use the ASUS Hyper M.2 expansion card with 4 Samsung 980 pro nvme drives in 1TB configuration per drive. So my RAID 0 is 4TB with a direct X16 throughput of 128gbps. (I have 4 RAID arrays, totaling 16TB). However, you need a few things for this 1. A CPU that has enough PCIe Lanes to handle both that card and your GPU (as well as any other things that use PCIe Lanes) your raid controller will use your PCIe lanes, so it could bottleneck your system if your processor isn't up to par. 2. A motherboard with pretty significant support, you mentioned a B450 (not a bad board) I believe it should have 3 PCIe X16 on the board (if its the F-Gaming variant) 3. 4x Good (and FAST) M.2 nvme ssd in your desired size (e.g. 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, ect...) 4. PATIENCE 5. Then you build. **** For Hardware RAID (generally speaking) 1. Using your raid controller install your SSDs into that, then install the raid controller in your PC. 2. Boot into your bios and configure it for RAID, build a RAID array first in the BIOS. 3. Reboot and see if the BIOS recognizes the RAID array (as a single HDD/SSD) the reboot into your OS. 4. In your OS identify your make and model of CPU and then download the correct TOP & BOTTOM RAID array driver controllers for your CPU, should be on the ASUS website under support for the ASUS hyper M.2 expansion card I suggested. 5. Install those drivers, its not difficult but it isn't as simple as click on an executable file and it installs. 6. Once the drivers are installed open up your disk utility and initialize your disks (disk utility will recognize 4 drives probably) when that happens you have to go into device manager and manually change the driver for each drive (two top RAID drivers, and two Bottom RAID drivers) and then reboot. Once that is done you have to download (if not already done) and install the RAID array software UI and build the array inside that and this should accomplish your goal. I've been meaning to make a video on this, but honestly re-building a new RAID array from scratch is kind of a hassle and since I don't have a separate system I can do it on I have not gotten around to it. But Since you asked this question I will make a video soon that explains the differences between software and Hardware RAID and I will do my best to provide a relatively straight forward walkthrough of the process inside the OS after the RAID is installed. I hope this helps I know it was a long response.

Depends 8on pc. The worst problem with mbr is: its supports only 2tb max