Raid 0 or 1 for 2 OCZ Vertex SSD on laptop

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Tiberiusfury

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I just bought a new laptop and it's super sweet. It's a Sager NP7282.
It has 2 240gb OCZ Vertex SSD drives and a 500gb storage drive.

But the way it came to me, it has the OS [Windows 7] installed on one drive, and the other is additional storage.
What I want is to put both OCZ SSD into a RAID 0 or RAID 1 so I can get min bootup times and max speed on the drive.
Top priority:
speed 10
redundancy 4

The motherboard does not have RAID capabilities but I think Windows 7 does.

-Do I need to reload the operating system to make it raid working?
-Is there a bootup CD [maybe like Ultimate boot CD] where I can reformat the disks and make them RAID?
-Can I make them RAID through windows disk management or 3rd party software even though Windows is already installed?

Thanks a lot.
 
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SSD's in raid don't really increase speed like you think it would.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

As far as redundancy, only raid 1 would provide any redundancy. If it was me, I'd put the OS and office apps on 1 SSD, and games on the other(until it was full). You don't really need redundancy on applications because it's easy to re-install them. Only your data needs to be backed up, and I'd put all my data on the HDD, and then get an external drive to periodically back up to.

 
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I checked that article and I think SSD does increase performance, and that's what I want.
Now----
How do I get there?
 
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ss202sl

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Raid 0 then, and you'll need to back-up your data, setup the raid(in bios) to include only your ssd's in a raid 0 group. Once you set up the raid, the drives will be formatted. Then install a fresh copy of Windows to the new volume(consisting of the 2 SSD'a in raid). Leave the HDD unplugged until after windows is installed.

Be aware that if either one of the drives in a raid 0 volume fails, you lose the entire volume - the data will be lost. This may not be a huge issue if it's only OS and applications, but still something to consider.
 
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