Thinking of RAID'ing my dual SSD's - Windows 10

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Need4Camaro

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New here, wasn't sure where to post this...

Basically I have a 250GB SSD as my primary / OS installed HD, and a 500GB SSD that I got for free of which I added to my PC for additional storage capacity. The 500GB SSD currently isn't being used and its cumbersome toggling storage between the two drives and want my PC to see them as one. It appears to be completely possible, but there is one problem. It appears both HDD's have to be reformatted, which will erase my OS and everything on my primary SSD.

I have an additional HDD that is also mostly unused totaling to 1 TB of space, but its not completely empty and I don't want to erase the data on it. Is there any way that I can back up my primary drive to it, create the RAID, and reload my OS, files, and software to the new RAID?
 
correct, you have to reformat, it's part of process when creating a RAID.
and the RAID will only be as big as the smallest drives capacity.
and you won't get any performance boost since you are using SSD's.
and you will need a hardware RAID controller, which may already be part of the motherboards software.

there's only a couple of reasons to get RAIDs.
performance - the load is shared across drives. (striping, fast but lose one and you lose all)
redundancy - data is copied across drives. (mirroring, always have a backup but slow as everything done twice)

and remember - RAID is no substitute for backups.

but these sort of exercises are usually fun.
you could use Macrium Reflect Free to take an image of the current system and save it to the HDD.
then RAID your two SSD's and use Macrium to reload the image - should work in theory, although I've never tried it. :)
 
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