Alienware 17 - can you use 4 SSD drives?

I keep seeing something around these parts about RAID 0 and how people are waiting on a BIOS update to utilize RAID 0. Is this something exclusive to the Alienware 15 or can the Alienware 17 R2 utilize four 500 GB Samsung EVO 850 M.2's?

Thanks!

 

Im using 2 M.2 Samsung SSD unfortunate no raid

 

While you cannot firmware RAID (the RAID virtually everyone here talks about), you can software RAID. The biggest difference is that the boot drive can't be RAID, but otherwise, software RAID behaves similarly to firmware RAID. You can read more about them here and here.
Firmware RAID, the RAID you do in the BIOS and such, isn't on any of the new laptops.

 

How did you get your second SSD drive to show up in windows explorer? My laptop came with the 128 GB (boot) SSD, but I have since purchased two 500 GB Samsung EVO's. My goal is to move everything from the boot 128 GB SSD to one of my other SSD drives (so that one of those is my boot drive), and then wipe the 128 GB ssd and use it for music; however, I can't get any of my other SSD drives to show up in windows explorer. I am about to tear my hair out!

I've read your links and googled until my eyes have crossed, but I still don't understand what this means:

"The biggest difference is that the boot drive can't be RAID"

Does that mean in order to use 3 SSD drives, I need to be booting off of my 1TB 7200 drive?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

 

It means that you can RAID only* drives that aren't boot drives. So you can have an SSD boot drive (say in M.2 slot 4, for example), and then have 4 SSDs in RAID 0 (in all the other slots, including the 2.5" slot).

 

I have mine 512 boot m2 ssd
2nd ssd m2 512 and 1 TB hdd
When I connect 2nd ssd it just showed up in explorer