Converting Raid 0 to standard on Alienware X15 R2

RAID 0 stripes your data across your devices, in this case, your two 1TB SSDs, with no redundancy. The benefit is increased performance for reads and writes — think of it as akin to running your RAM in dual-channel mode. The downside is somewhat decreased reliability: the failure of one drive means the loss of all data on both. However since SSDs are MUCH more reliable than hard drives, you're not taking a huge risk. This is not a mirrored configuration, and your usable storage is 2TB, not 1TB as you stated. (Intel includes a RAID overview here. With two SSDs you're limited to RAID 0 [striping], RAID 1 [mirroring], or no RAID [individual drives].)

As far as "converting"...... I have to admit I've never set up RAID on an Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST)/Optane system, so I'm sorry I can't help you here. Intel has some info which links from here (which I hope is current and relevant). The service manual shows that SATA/NVMe Operation will have RAID switched on, and there's also an Intel RST section in the BIOS setup "Advance menu", though I don't know whether you can change the config from here. You may feel more comfortable managing your SSDs as separate devices. I think how you would "convert" to separate devices would be to (1) turn off RAID 0 striping, however this is done (possibly with Windows running?), (2) optionally turn off RAID mode in the BIOS, and (3) restore the system via SupportAssist OS Recovery, which can download a restore image on-the-fly from Dell.

Thank you so much for the response so in your opinion I am not running any high risks keeping the RAID0 since the laptop is going to be for sole purpose of faming anything else i do is through cloud so i always have copies