Applying RAID after...

[phelps50]

The only storage I have in my PC are two NVMe M.2 drives. I've already installed Windows 10, downloaded several games, and saved many documents, all to just one of my two NVME M.2 drives. RAID is something that I just learned about, and I want to use RAID 0 to stripe my data across both drives, for performance reasons. If I were to turn it on now, would all of the stuff I've previously saved onto just the one drive, now be striped across the two drives? Or am I going to have to delete all of my storage from the drive and restore it after I set up RAID?

[GDRRiley]

youd have to restore after you set up a raid 0. 

[Eigenvektor]

Probably not possible with your system drive. Read this: https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-in-raid-0-using-windows-10s-storage-spaces-feature

 

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The first step in prepping your PC for some much-needed storage blending is to make sure that each of the drives you plan on unifying are the same make and model, and use the same firmware.

 

After you’ve checked for brand solidarity, it’s absolutely essential that you relieve the drives completely of any file systems or volumes. That means, yes, you’ll need to backup everything on the drives in question prior to forging a RAID 0 array.

 

 

[jj9987]

RAID 0 requires to clean up the disks/reformat them. Do take note, that RAID 0 is quite fragile. You get a performance boost, yes, but if one of the drive starts dying, you lose data on both of the drives.

 

But I do wonder, what are you doing that NVMe drives are not fast enough for your use?

[Enderman]

First of all, nothing is going to perform any better with 6GBps writes instead of 3GBps writes.

All your programs and boot time and other stuff is bottlenecked by your CPU, not storage speed.

Most programs don't even benefit from an NVME SSD, a regular sata SSD is already more than fast enough.

Making yoour storage speed faster with raid will just increase the chance of data loss, and maybe even slow things down since your raid controller needs to initialize.