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May 22nd, 2017 19:00
Alienware 17 R4 Raid 0
Hey guys my name is James and I am a US expat in South Korea. Dell here does not have the SSD options like Dell USA has so despite everything else being top specs my new R4 is coming with a 512GB sata from SK. A decent drive, but I am coming to this laptop from a 2017 Razer Blade Pro (an absolute disaster) that runs 2X 1TB Samsung 960s in a RAID 0 config out of the box.
I am curious, how hard it is to setup the Alienware 17 R4 with raid 0 as well.
I am looking at the 960s again as bang for buck to me they seem like a decent value here in Korea.
I have seen some older how to's online but they are from 2013 or so and although Dell has told me that my new system will support Raid 0 I am just curious if anyone has any incite.
Thanks in advance!
Alienware - Rodrigo
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May 23rd, 2017 08:00
Hi,
You can setup Raid 0 on this system if you have two identical M.2 PCI-E/NVME SSD drives. You can do this by enabling Raid in the Bios (look for the SATA operation setting in Advanced) and then setting up Raid 0 in the (Ctrl i) Raid utility menu. It is not hard to set this up, we can provide you with the instructions.
Don_Chooluvit
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July 13th, 2017 21:00
I just ordered 2 512 GB m.2 drives, a 1TB 2.5 ssd, and would love the instructions please. I have a 128 GB SSD Boot drive now that I would like to clone onto the raid0 2x512. I have a 1TB 2.5 mech drive that will end up being a backup drive.
NamNguyen191
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November 11th, 2017 00:00
Hi!
I have 2 Samsung 960 evo 500GB and I'm trying to setup raid 0 for them. Can you please provide me with the instruction? They have already been installed and 1 of them have the OS on it so if I setup raid 0 for them do I have to reinstall window as well?