Moving to RAID 0

Hi all.
I recently upgraded my hard drive from 1TB to 2TB. I bought two 2TB hard drives because of I planned to run RAID 1, but after I cloned one of the 2TB drives and removed the old 1TB I decided to back up a different way. I have most of the stuff I wanted to back up still on the old hard drive, and another method seemed like a better route. My son uses it for gaming quite a bit and RAID 1 seemed counter productive, and not as safe.
So, will I be able to move my new 2TB drive to RAID 0 with my other new 2TB drive even though I'm using one right now?
Anything else this computer Noob needs to consider?
Once again I find myself at the mercy of the much more educated HP Forum members lol.
Here is my Computer Specs:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-Elite-HPE-200-Desktop-PC-series/4160010/model/416001...
Hard Drive is the same but upgraded to 2TB
Pavilion Elite, AMD Phenom II x4 3.0GHz, 4X2 8GB RAM, GeForce 970 Graphics, Win 7
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Hi there.
You can setup RAID 0 with these drives, but keep in mind that you have to reformat the one you're currently using when setting up the RAID array - it's necessary to format both drives which will lead to data loss.
As for the array, indeed RAID 0 is what most people would prefer for a gaming system and it will help games when loading, which is a read function, and yet I personally would implement a RAID 1. RAID 0 boosts performance, but isn't as reliable if you don't backup regularly your important data. Also, games load faster, but you will not have better FPS and no redundancy, which basically means that if one of the drives fail, you loose all the data stored there.
Hope this helps.
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