I ended up deciding to use a 2TB SSD in the M.2 slot with an 8TB 3.5 drive to replace the smaller drives that came with the machine. SSD will be the boot disk, while the HDD will be used for media and less used applications. Will use a nightly backup of both disks to an external drive instead of RAID.
Hey folks, Looking for some validation on the RAID options I have. I'm proficient with software, but just now getting into hardware. I'm looking to create a media/gaming machine and would like to have a few things: What are my raid options? Are all the below possible? Looking at the 8940 specs, I see one M.2 SSD slot and 3 SATA slots. Option 4 seems like the best one for me, but I see only one M.2 slot for an SSD. Can I get some cheap hardware to be able to use 3 SSDs into that one slot without a huge performance hit? Otherwise, option 3 seems like the least headache.  Appreciate any thoughts and suggestions
XPS 8940, RAID options