Windows 10: Can you do a Raid backup from the boot drive which is m.2 NVME SSD to the raid backup drive...

Can you do a Raid backup from the boot drive which is m.2 NVME SSD to the raid backup drive which is a SATA 3 SSD2.5"? They will both be 1tb, but will it work due to one drive being a M.2 NVME and one being a SATA 3 SSD 2.5"? Will be using AMD Ryzen 5 5600g and windows 10 or 11.

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SSD with RAID backup drive

The raid volume is on two samsung Hd's. Seems there are a lot of things being said about SSD. I haven't made a backup or restore point, think I can put it on another hard drive. I do know that you always see set the bios to AHCI. If I use raid the controller needs the iastor.sys. I also saw somewhere the SSD should have a msahci.sys driver. I should try Booting into the SSD with raid enabled, pretty sure I did this in the past. I believe I have two controllers, 1 for internal drives and one for external drives. This may be the answer.
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M.2 NVMe SSDs in Raid 0 array?

I am not using a RAID card - there are 3 M.2 slots on the mobo - slots 1 & 2 have Samsung 960 Pro 512 GB drives - slot 3 has a Samsung 960 EVO drive .
I can create a RAID 0 array using the 2 960 Pro drives - but it is not recognized in the Boot options.
Strip size was changed to the suggested 128KB after this pic was taken
I have been messing with the BIOS all night trying to figure this out - no luck

 

M.2 NVMe SSDs in Raid 0 array?

Issue resolved - I decided to re-install Win 10 to the RAID array - said it couldn't install because Windows MBR and drive needed to be GPT - or something to that effect.

Using diskpart, I formatted the array and converted it to GPT - Windows installed and booting is fine. I had run into this before because I always delete the RECOVERY and EFI partitions from the drives - it is an OCD thing - don't ask - *Sad

This is the current Disk Mgmnt situation - no way I'll leave it alone
Benchmark below - not that impressed with it - writes much better - reads not so much.

Other issue - the drive does not show up in Acronis when trying restore a backup - this may be the RAID deal killer for me.

I thank you for the suggestions - how could you help when I left a card out of the deck - my bad.

Rest and Think time before doing anymore - THANKS AGAIN!