Moving boot disk to raid 0

Hi Guys,
I have the following volumes on my MacPro
1. Boot Disk - 465.3 GB, 200GB used
2. Raid 0 volume - 436.2 GB
How easy is it for me to move the boot disk data to the raid 0 volume and then boot from the raid 0 partition.
Also I have heard that if you have a raid 0 boot disk that the firmware updates can fail, is this still true.
Thanks for any help
Andy

Quicken Data files are actually packages, which can contain alias to the volume. Once I stripped the aliases from the data file, no problems, but for the longest time (years) everytime I cloned and used a different volume I'd run into trouble.
LittleSnitch hard codes the volume name, but also WHERE on the volume, an application is located. Very annoying.
So it may be plist or preference, but it could also be writing an alias to data file, or even back to the application package itself.
You would think at some point during testing especially, a light bulb would go off and realize there is a better way to code (unless it really is deliberate and trying to tie a program to only a single volume type system, which the Mac doesn't need to be).
Feedback the vendor. However, unless you do a lot of moving stuff around (like during testing) it is a "once only" event. If you name the new RAID boot volume with same name, might not even matter.
I do a lot of backup and restores during the course of a week, SuperDuper works well, not 200% perfect maybe, but works.
I keep my boot volume, though, free of my home account. That resides on another volume and can last for years. The boot volume gets changed more often. And I think having "home account" (but not /Users) not be on the boot drive makes it easy and avoids some of these problems even.

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