I’d appreciate a sanity check for what I’m planning to do later today.
I bought a minisforum um890 recently. It has 2 m.2 nvme ports. I have the system running nobara off one drive currently, the other is unfilled. The drive has file system encryption enabled.
I backed up the root folder of my system to a 128gb usb using backintime. I enabled encryption when asked.
I plan to install a second ssd, enable raid 0 striping on the 2 drives in bios, boot from a live USB, then install nobara onto the new raid storage.
After that, i should be able to reinstall backintime then restore my backup right?
Personally I would take this opportunity to segregate /home and / on two distinct SSDs. You can upgrade them separately in the future, optimize each of them for different purposes, you can fuff around with system partitions and trying new distros and whatnot without touching home etc.
There’s nothing outstanding to gain from RAID0 if you don’t need the increase in speed. You could make an argument for RAID1 but unless you actually need 100% availability, again, not worth the complications. Take frequent backups (preferably incremental) and that’s it.