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February 25th, 2022 06:00

m17 R4, installing 2280 SSD when laptop is using RAID 0

Hello everyone!

I've had my m17 R4, my first Alienware product, for about 4 months now and have been really happy so far. I selected 512 GB storage when I bought it knowing I would eventually upgrade with a 1 TB storage drive. That time is now. I bought a Western Digital 1 TB 2280 form factor NVMe Gen4 "gaming drive" (https://www.amazon.com/Black-SN750-NVMe-Internal-Gaming/dp/B095HB3L6G).

The m17 R4 has 3 SSD slots. Slots 1 and 2 can take 2230 (short) or 2280 (long) SSDs. Slot 3 can only take 2230s.The laptop shipped using 2 256 GB 2230 form factor SSDs in a RAID 0 array. They are in slots 1 and 2.

Can I just move one of those to slot 3 and install my 2280 SSD in the newly opened slot? Will this mess up the RAID? Can I do any BIOS work after this move to tell it to look at slot 3 for the other half of the RAID? Unfortunately I have very little experience with RAIDs, especially using more recent hardware like SSDs, so I am kind of clueless here.

Any help is appreciated!