Configuring OS drive to RAID 0

[aesthetics]

I recently finished building my computer. I am using a samsung evo 840 250gb as my OS and application drive and installed the main games i play on it too. I was thinking to get another SSD and configure them to RAID 0 but I really dont want to reinstall all the drivers, updates, software etc etc... if I create an image of the current drive using something like Clonezilla and restore it once I have configured them to RAID 0 do you reckon it will work? how about the samsung data migration software? can i take an image using that or does it directly clone the drive?

 

Also how would I go about configuring my OS drive to raid 0? what are the things i need to lookout in order for the RAID to work?

 

 

I have Z97 Hero mobo.

[Hecknologist]

Do you have something like an old hdd that will fit all your stuff? you could clone to that then swap it back to the ssd once in raid, or use the hdd for storing an image. Other then using another place to store your files I don't see you being able to keep everything. Alternatively if you have a big enough storage limit you could backup an image to somewhere like dropbox, but that could be pricey.

[fishy]

don't want to start another thread so i'll just add my question here, since it's basically the same

 

is there any way to just plug in the new ssd, make it a raid 0 and have the PC automagically transfer data on both drives?

i have 1 ssd atm, half full and i'll get another one tomorrow, is this possible?

or my only option is to install a fresh windows, or make a copy of what's already on my ssd?

i don't have any other hdd or ssd free atm so making an image of the ssd is not an option

 

is a fresh install of win my only option then?

[aesthetics]

Do you have something like an old hdd that will fit all your stuff? you could clone to that then swap it back to the ssd once in raid, or use the hdd for storing an image. Other then using another place to store your files I don't see you being able to keep everything. Alternatively if you have a big enough storage limit you could backup an image to somewhere like dropbox, but that could be pricey.

storing the data is not a problem, i have an external hdd large enough. Im just wondering whether id be able to restore it while the drives will be in raid 0.

[Hecknologist]

storing the data is not a problem, i have an external hdd large enough. Im just wondering whether id be able to restore it while the drives will be in raid 0.

The only problem I could see would be the image backup would not run properly when changing from ahci to raid. You could always just grab an installer for each program you have installed + a copy of documents/pics/music etc and do a fresh install of windows.

[Hecknologist]

don't want to start another thread so i'll just add my question here, since it's basically the same

 

is there any way to just plug in the new ssd, make it a raid 0 and have the PC automagically transfer data on both drives?

i have 1 ssd atm, half full and i'll get another one tomorrow, is this possible?

or my only option is to install a fresh windows, or make a copy of what's already on my ssd?

i don't have any other hdd or ssd free atm so making an image of the ssd is not an option

 

is a fresh install of win my only option then?

unfortunately you can't spread data out when adding another drive and arraying it. The best thing to do is make a copy of everything you want to keep and an installer for all your programs and fresh reinstall. Windows doesn't play nice when restoring an image to a different drive config.