Windows 10 Raid 0 ssd

[moarILLEST]

Hey guys,
I currently have my OS (windows 10) on a BIOS / intel rapid storage tech RAID 0 - 16kb strips on my 2 m.2 drives - using sata because my drives aren't NVME capable. I have a gigabyte g1 gaming 5 z170x mobo which is how I set up the raid. BUT I wanted to raid 0 through windows because of what I've looked up, windows raid has a drastic increase in performance, from Intel 16kb strip (about 20% increase) and Windows raid (about %80). I have a HDD with a back up of my whole system --besides whats on D - and a flash drive with windows 10 install on it. 
How do I go about -- wiping my current raid 0 -- install windows 10 on those same drives BUT in raid 0 THROUGH windows. I can't think of a solid way to do this except add ANOTHER drive with windows and then raid 0 those 2 m.2 drives and then attempt to install windows on it IF the bios can read it as an already raided drive.
Do I make any sense?

[DnFx91]

7 minutes ago, moarILLEST said:

Hey guys,
I currently have my OS (windows 10) on a BIOS / intel rapid storage tech RAID 0 - 16kb strips on my 2 m.2 drives - using sata because my drives aren't NVME capable. I have a gigabyte g1 gaming 5 z170x mobo which is how I set up the raid. BUT I wanted to raid 0 through windows because of what I've looked up, windows raid has a drastic increase in performance, from Intel 16kb strip (about 20% increase) and Windows raid (about %80). I have a HDD with a back up of my whole system --besides whats on D - and a flash drive with windows 10 install on it. 
How do I go about -- wiping my current raid 0 -- install windows 10 on those same drives BUT in raid 0 THROUGH windows. I can't think of a solid way to do this except add ANOTHER drive with windows and then raid 0 those 2 m.2 drives and then attempt to install windows on it IF the bios can read it as an already raided drive.
Do I make any sense?

it makes sense, but it's not possible. you cant install windows onto a windows RAID, as you need windows installed before you can access disk management in order to create the raid. Catch 22.

[DnFx91]

besides, RAID 0 NVME for boot is kinda overkill and won't really benefit you. i would install OS on one of those NVME drives, get a third one, and then RAID the remaining 2 together from within windows. a windows RAID0 of NVME drives will be monstrously quick, and you can chuck your games and big programs on there.

[moarILLEST]

5 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

besides, RAID 0 NVME for boot is kinda overkill and won't really benefit you. i would install OS on one of those NVME drives, get a third one, and then RAID the remaining 2 together from within windows. a windows RAID0 of NVME drives will be monstrously quick, and you can chuck your games and big programs on there.

I don't have any m.2's that are NVME. That's one of my problems. I would've gotten one but I didn't want to spend the extra cash . I have 2 m.2 slots on my MOBO and only one slot is able to utilize NVME. I was thinking the same thing of it pretty much being a catch 22 with windows raid....with no windows to do it on. PLUS when I raid these two drives together at the moment, it HAS to use SATA - but it is SATA Express (pcie gen 3 x2) - I'm only getting about 550MB/s read and 520MB/s write - which is barely faster than a regular ssd

[moarILLEST]

Anyone else got ideas? I really want this to work haha. 

[TheCherryKing]

3 hours ago, moarILLEST said:

Anyone else got ideas? I really want this to work haha. 

The only way you can install Windows on drives with RAID is by using hardware RAID included with the motherboard or separate BIOS. I am not familiar with m.2 drives but I know that RAID on the Windows boot drive is possible with a SAS or SATA RAID card.