TL;DR: Have a very expensive laptop and want to make sure I can create a partition on two SSDs in RAID 0 without messing up everything.

Hi everyone!

I’m pretty new to Linux and I’d like to get Mint running on my Windows machine. I used Ubuntu way back in maybe 2010 and I didn’t really get why it was so great, except for “holy shit look at the kickass desktop cube!” I also use Arch By The Way with my Steam Deck, but that barely counts as “using” Linux.

These days I’m much more privacy- and FOSS-minded (not to mention more tech-savvy and comfortable with the CLI since becoming a web dev) so I’m ready and excited to take it more seriously. I definitely want to keep Windows on here to keep a more reliable option for playing games.

Now to the meat and potatoes: my laptop came with this storage configuration (capture from the product page): From my limited understanding of RAID 0, the two m.2 drives are used as if they’re one, with the data being “striped” across them. Would that lead to any issues when I create a primary partition for Mint? Maybe I’m just paranoid, but the last thing I want to do is ruin my laptop.

Here’s what Disk Management shows, in case the additional info. is needed:

I would really appreciate any advice y’all can offer!