RAID in Windows

[JoshBrowne]

I've used disk management to create a RAID 0 array on my HDDs for storage, (just upgraded my boot drive to an SSD)

If I get another SSD identical to the one I already have and build another RAID array using the motherboard's controller, and reinstall Windows, will I lose the data stored on my HDD RAID array unless I back it up onto normally configured HDD?

Thanks.

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

as long as you only enable raid on the ports for the SSD's and then only add those drives to it you wont lose any data. If you rebuilt your windows raid array using the onboard controller as well, then you would lose data.

 

[JoshBrowne]

as long as you only enable raid on the ports for the SSD's and then only add those drives to it you wont lose any data. If you rebuilt your windows raid array using the onboard controller as well, then you would lose data.

Thank you for the fast response!

Next question - supposing I get this second SSD, any chance I can use the onboard raid controller to create the SSD striped array using the files on the drive I already have so I don't have to do a format and OS install from the ground up? Or could I create a recovery partition on one of my OTHER other HDDs and then run that onto the new RAID array?