MacOS High Sierra HFS+ Raid 0..?

[_thunderhawk]

Hey everyone, new to the forum!

Maybe this has been asked before so I apologize if it has!

Just to preface, I have been out of the Mac/MacOS game for quite some time. The last time I had a Mac (of any kind) was close to 4-5 years ago, and if I remember correctly MacOS Lion was out. So I'm unfamiliar with a lot of changes, but I'm learning.

I have a Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro i5. I recently bought 2 Samsung SSD's in hopes of setting up a Raid 0 configuration. Clearly this is currently not possible on High Sierra with the new APFS. If I setup a usb boot drive with Terminal using the command 'converttoapfs NO' and force my ssd's to setup as HFS+ am I still able to setup in Raid 0? Or is this no longer a possibility in the OS until there is support for Fusion Drives and Raid drives?

 

[Fishrrman]

I'm not an expert on RAID, but...
... from reading another user's futile attempts to install Hight Sierra on a RAID drive (without success) ... I'd reckon that it's just not possible right now. I could be wrong.

 

[SaSaSushi]

You can give the 'converttoapfs NO' thing a try. I have a RAID0 drive but I don't boot from it.

So far as I know, the only problem with booting from RAID in High Sierra is the lack of support for RAID in APFS as yet.

One option for getting a bootable HFS+ RAID0 which appears to work is to install High Sierra to a single drive and then clone it to an HFS+ RAID0.