Use Raid 0 for 2 TB SSD in Notebook?

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I have a Dell M6600 Precision Mobile Workstation with 2 separate 500 Gig Hard Drives which are combined using Raid 0. MY machine is slow and the hard disk light is on all the time (I run Windows Server 2012 R2 on it and do a lot of VMs). I just ordered a single 2 TB SSD drive for it.

My plan is to remove the primary 500 Gig drive and replace it with the 2 TB SSD drive, re-install the OS (maybe upgrade to Windows Server 2016) and primary work files (e.g. VM's) on the new SSD drive and leave the second 500 Gig HDD drive in place - reformatting it for archival usage. Two Questions:

1. Would having both the SSD and HDD drives cause any significant performance decrease as opposed to removing the second HDD drive all together? I am not planning to Raid them together - just curious if the slower drive may slow the overall bus down just by its presence for example?

2. Is there any advantage to using RAID 0 on the 2TB SSD drive? I've seen some arguments that RAID 0 actually increases performance.

Thanks!
 
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1. Just leave it out during the Windows install. So Windows doesn't try to put any files on it or use it for OS related uses.

2. If you have a second 2TB SSD. You can get some gains in sequential read/write. With just the one installed it is pointless.

I'm just curious as to why you would not just switch to Windows 10 Pro. It's cheaper. Unless you are using it as a server. I can't see any benefit on a laptop. It just runs slower and the same software sometimes costs more to run on Windows Server.
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1. Just leave it out during the Windows install. So Windows doesn't try to put any files on it or use it for OS related uses.

2. If you have a second 2TB SSD. You can get some gains in sequential read/write. With just the one installed it is pointless.

I'm just curious as to why you would not just switch to Windows 10 Pro. It's cheaper. Unless you are using it as a server. I can't see any benefit on a laptop. It just runs slower and the same software sometimes costs more to run on Windows Server.
 
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I started using Windows Server 2008 Server and later upgraded to 2012 Server specifically to have full Hyper-V capabilities. I did think about using Windows 10 because Hyper-V is getting more mature there. However, it's still not full Hyper-V capabilities on Windows 10 if you check discussions in the internet. I'm planning to move VM's to and from Azure and these types of capabilities are restricted to Windows Server Hyper-V still. I do use this PC as a desktop as well with Office and such and this has always worked quite well on Windows Server. Certainly happy to hear any additional thoughts on this.
 
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