Can I add RAID secondary drives without reinstalling Windows on my primary OS drive?

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I've got Windows 10 installed on my primary SSD drive. Higher-capacity SSDs are getting cheaper so I picked up another two 2TB Micron SSDs and I'm thinking about putting them in RAID 0 as a secondary game/Plex drive so I never have to listen to a noisy HDD again. (Yes, I know RAID 0 doubles the failure risk, but I've got Backblaze cloud backup and there won't be anything that important on it). Also I've never tried RAID before so why not play around with it?

Reading my motherboard manual though, it says this about enabling RAID:
Due to chipset limitation, when SATA ports are set to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together.
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(ASUS Maximus VIII Z170 motherboard)

I don't want to affect my existing Windows installation or my primary drive, just add new drives in RAID. Is what I want to do possible?
 
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if you are on win 10 then do it with a storage pool instead, they'll show as a single drive and it's hardware independent. If you are on anything below win 10 then you could use a spanned drive if you need 4TB of apparently contiguous space. RAID is dying, there are better options out there.
 
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If I use Storage Spaces can I get the performance benefit of striping as in RAID 0?
 
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There is no benefit striping ssds
 
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