You can indeed do that - but you may want to make sure the system is fully functional during the 30 day return period just in case. If you break the RAID array and reload everything, you may find yourself in for a round of finger-pointing if issues arise. You can also make a backup image of the system to an external drive (Macrium Reflect Free works well) along with the recovery media. You can then break the RAID array, set the drives up separately and recover the image to one of the drives.
Hi @Hulksta786 welcome to this user to user discussion forum. This is not Dell Support.
Not sure what recently got an Alienware Area-51m R2 means: a) within 30 days approval timescale, b) more than 30 days, within first year basic Dell Warranty, c) purchased 5 year Dell Warranty Premium Plus, d) other.
Best option, use Macrium Reflect Free to create clone (copy) of RAID 0 boot drive onto single M.2 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe card. Create single drive with the modern GPT partition format and when installed, enable BIOS boot list option UEFI. There are now two pristine OS(C:) boot drives, but only install one.
After 30 day approval, Dell expects user to update what was delivered. Extreme modifications are not covered under Dell Warranty. Creation of single OS(C:) boot drive is acceptable and your disaster Recovery Plan should include a pristine standby clone, so that if original OS(C:) boot drive becomes unrecoverable, the standby can be swapped in, to get system up and running within minutes.
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You can indeed do that - but you may want to make sure the system is fully functional during the 30 day return period just in case. If you break the RAID array and reload everything, you may find yourself in for a round of finger-pointing if issues arise. You can also make a backup image of the system to an external drive (Macrium Reflect Free works well) along with the recovery media. You can then break the RAID array, set the drives up separately and recover the image to one of the drives.
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Hi @Hulksta786 welcome to this user to user discussion forum. This is not Dell Support.
Not sure what recently got an Alienware Area-51m R2 means: a) within 30 days approval timescale, b) more than 30 days, within first year basic Dell Warranty, c) purchased 5 year Dell Warranty Premium Plus, d) other.
Best option, use Macrium Reflect Free to create clone (copy) of RAID 0 boot drive onto single M.2 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe card. Create single drive with the modern GPT partition format and when installed, enable BIOS boot list option UEFI. There are now two pristine OS(C:) boot drives, but only install one.
After 30 day approval, Dell expects user to update what was delivered. Extreme modifications are not covered under Dell Warranty. Creation of single OS(C:) boot drive is acceptable and your disaster Recovery Plan should include a pristine standby clone, so that if original OS(C:) boot drive becomes unrecoverable, the standby can be swapped in, to get system up and running within minutes.
Please click on Kudos to say thank you for response from user that is not employed by Dell. Please share an update on progress, so that other users derive benefit from your experience. Thank you.