Raid0 questions..... Help!!

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I have 2 128gb m.2 ssd's from an old laptop. I now have a new laptop with 4 bays for m.2 ssd's, with only 1 filled (another 128gb).

The original 2 were raid0. Can I put these in the new laptop and recreate the raid0, and access the programs/make it the boot drive (it was previously the boot drive)?

If the above is possible, can I then make a backup/clone of the raid0 then wipe the drives and add the 3rd ssd (3 x m.s ssd raid0) and then install the backup/clone onto it for more space/speed?

Also, new laptop is probably win8.1 and old laptop had already been upgraded to win10.

New laptop arrives tomorrow.

Thanks, and I hope that makes sense.
 
Old laptops won't have m.2 SSD's. You are more likely confusing m.2 with mSATA which is similar but still different.

A laptop with 3 mSATA slots sounds...odd. Are you sure it isn't an mSATA and then 2 mini PCI-E slots?

Either way though, it depends on what created the original Raid0, some arrays can be recreated and some most certainly can't. Couldn't even begin to hazard a guess without knowing makes and models etc etc.
 
You do get laptops with multiple M.2 slots so they can sell RAID 0 as an amazing feature.

You don't gain much from RAID0 with SSDs, as it does nothing for IOPs and occasionally makes them worse.

You'd be much much better off with a single larger capacity SSD, as the 512GB drives perform much better than the 128GB ones.

Assuming you're going from an intel chipset laptop to another intel chipset laptop, it may just detect the old RAID array, but it may not. If it doesn't, you're basically out of luck. If it does, you will be able to access it, but I'd not recommend booting from that windows install as it will have issues due to the change in the rest of the hardware.

You could then back it all up to a USB drive, then delete the RAID array and recreate as 3 way RAID 0, yes.
 
MSI GT72, bought from OcUK. 4 x m.2 slots and 1 x 2.5" mech 1TB HDD.

3 m.2 populated raid0 1600MB/s read, 900MB/s write. Not bad.

Did a fresh install in the end.

:)
 
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