I am purchasing a workstation with 4x2TB HDD in RAID 10 as the primary drive with the OS (Windows). I want to replace this setup with a 1TB NVME SSD to speed up reading and writing to disk.
I do not have much experience working with RAID setups, and I wonder if it is possible for me to simply add the SSD to computer as the primary drive (by modifying the BIOS boot order) and install Windows on it, while keeping the RAID setup intact so that if something goes awry during the SSD installation, I could revert back to having the RAID setup as the primary drive and boot Windows just as prior to the addition of the SSD (once I have successfully installed Windows on the SSD, I intend to break the RAID and re-purpose the drives as storage for our other workstations). Is this setup procedure feasible or does adding the new SSD drive somehow break the previous RAID setup so that it is not possible to boot from it any longer? Do I need to physically disconnect the RAID drives when installing Windows on the SSD?
I do not have much experience working with RAID setups, and I wonder if it is possible for me to simply add the SSD to computer as the primary drive (by modifying the BIOS boot order) and install Windows on it, while keeping the RAID setup intact so that if something goes awry during the SSD installation, I could revert back to having the RAID setup as the primary drive and boot Windows just as prior to the addition of the SSD (once I have successfully installed Windows on the SSD, I intend to break the RAID and re-purpose the drives as storage for our other workstations). Is this setup procedure feasible or does adding the new SSD drive somehow break the previous RAID setup so that it is not possible to boot from it any longer? Do I need to physically disconnect the RAID drives when installing Windows on the SSD?
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