Raid 0 Help? Cloning existing Boot Drive?

[MiniMoose1211]

Do you absolutely need a raid card to perform a raid 0 setup? I have a pretty "decent" motherboard and I was wondering what the benefits from buying a 33$ raid card are? My mother board is the MSI Z87 Mpower... Long story short, my SSD seems to be dying and I'm in need of a fix soon. Planning to buy 2x 250GB 850 Evos from Newegg while they're on sale...  I know what RAID 0 Is, just wondering if I needed a raid card or is there such thing as an onboard raid card? 

 

So now that is out of the way, how would one go "cloning" ones' Boot Drive onto a raid array? I was wondering if I could copy my current boot SSD onto my raid array and boot from the raid and whipe the existing boot ssd? Would I just create the raid array first in the bios, than boot into windows and allocate it's space.... Than get some type of cloning utlilty and copy my boot drive over to the raid? Help? Or would I have to reformat completely.

[little_shiet]

Intel onboard chipset has good enough RAID controller. You can run 3 SSD without any big bottleneck. I use also two SSDs in RAID 0 with onboard controller and it's butter smooth.

[MiniMoose1211]

bump *updated thread* instead of making a whole new thread.

[MiniMoose1211]

reformatted with my new 850 evos in raid 0.. Holy balls this is the fastest I've ever seen a pc boot... GG WP