Re:  If Raid 0 can be set up to be able to boot windows 10 ? Does any one know if this is possible ?

Hello @Jaylectric , no, it won't work with that setup. 

Chino de Oro, is there a way to make Raid 0 work on 2 - nvme m.2 drives for fast speed and to boot into windows 10. Why wont it work.  What if I buy a raid controller ?

The RAID settings in BIOS meant for SATA drives, your system support bifurcation natively but there is no RAID controller for PCIe slots to drive those NVMe SSD.

Windows boots almost the same speed from SATA SSD, NVMe SSD, or RAID volumes.  Soft RAID yields similar results as hardware RAID.  So I suggest the most efficient setup for your system will be 3 NVMe drives on a quad adapter, asus hyper will do, one will be boot drive and 2 others will striped as RAID 0 in Windows.

If the results are not satisfied, you can invest into raid controllers, depending on what your setup be used for.   

Chino, I have read that maybe using 

Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) will work, what do you suggest ?

Chino,

Thank you so much for your advice, I really appreciate it. In reality I just wanted to experiment in having a Raid 0 set-up with 2 drives m.2 ssd for fast speads. I looked on the dell 5810 spec sheets and is says that they have a controller that supports Raid 0.  If I use this controller can I set up my system to have a Raid 0 with 2 - m.2 drives ssd and have another 2 as just storage drives ?. Thank you for your time and reply. 

MegaRaid SAS 9361-8i 12gb/s SATA/SAS PCie controller (1gb cache ) supports hardware Raid 0,1,5,10

Chino, 

Also I'm confused because you specified that after one drive is used for Booting the other 2 can be configured as Raid 0 and striped in windows Disk Management.  I thought you needed a controller for this since the BIOS only supports Raid config for SATA Drives. 

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@Jaylectric wrote:

Hi, I currently own a dell 5810. and wanted to know if by buying the dell ultra-speed drive quad NVME M.@ PCIe x 16 Card and inserting (2) M.2 ssd drives specifically 2 x 500 gb samsung 980. If Raid 0 can be set up to be able to boot windows 10 ? Does any one know if this is possible ?

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I think you are trying to do too much at once and over-complicating it.

NVMe-SSDs are plenty fast all by themselves (no RAID needed). You install them as normal drives. One can probably be your OS/Boot/C-drive if you don't already have a fast C-Drive.

If you are out of M.2-NVMe slots, you can use one of these items linked to in this post I made the other day:

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R6-1TB-M-2-SSD-boot-drive-capacity-larger-than-normal/m-p/8163239/highlight/true#M57227

These cards purposely only hold one SSD per card (for slot-speed dedication). 

Chino,

thank you once again for your reply, I will this. But I really want to install Windows on a Raid 0 configuration query #2 can this be accomplished with Megaraid controller and using the Intel VROC. Thanks in advance for your guidance and help. 

MegaRaid SAS 9361-8i 12gb/s SATA/SAS PCie controller (1gb cache ) supports hardware Raid 0,1,5,10

@Jaylectric , if you want to install and boot windows from a RAID volume, you could.  However, a controller card is not enough, you will need proper cables (minisas hd) and backplane for your drives as well.  Check out Icy Dock products if you are interested.

You may improve windows boot time from 12 seconds to 11 seconds but your system BIOS took around 20 seconds to complete integrity check.  You can't notice any improvement.

Results vs. costs.