Raid 0 drive cloning

[mormonsniper]

I am considering a laptop, of some kind. I was wondering if a RAID 0 array made up of M.2 NVMe PCIe drives can be cloned?

 

Thanks!

 

MS

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can clone it. There will be a virtual block device of the 2 real ones.

[mormonsniper]

So, I would clone the original RAID 0 array as a virtual drive to the second array. The second array would also appear to be a virtual device as well. Assuming two M.2 drives in each array, would it make any difference to the M.2 slots and the computer where each of the two now cloned NVMe boards were mounted (this after cloning of course)?  I have not found a video on this type of cloning. 

[vrod]

It highly depends on what kind of RAID this is? Are we talking software-raid within windows? Or fakeraid within the BIOS config? Or do you have a hardware raid-controller who runs this? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 hours ago, mormonsniper said:

So, I would clone the original RAID 0 array as a virtual drive to the second array. The second array would also appear to be a virtual device as well. Assuming two M.2 drives in each array, would it make any difference to the M.2 slots and the computer where each of the two now cloned NVMe boards were mounted (this after cloning of course)?  I have not found a video on this type of cloning. 

Yep you can do this. 

 

Id probably suggest not using raid though.

[Dark]

Does the system support 2x m.2 drives? 

 

If so, just clone one to the other using clonezilla. Don't bother with trying to create an array, you'd be left with a degraded array afterwards. 

 

*edit* I misunderstood. 

 

Yes, you can clone a raid 0 array. 

 

Using clonezilla, you can clone the array to another disk or to an image stored on another disk for use at a later time.