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Guru3D.com » News » AMD to Release NVMe RAID Support for X399 September 25th

AMD to Release NVMe RAID Support for X399 September 25th

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/31/2017 03:03 PM | source: | 23 comment(s)
AMD to Release NVMe RAID Support for X399 September 25th

More news coming AMD is that the X399 motherboards will be supporting Bootable NVME RAID. A nice free upgrade I'd say. AMD got some heat recently, not having this feature available.

So to hook into that last topic, the feature was not available just yet. AMD will be releasing a free NVMe driver for the X399 platform. The new driver will enabled RAID 0, 1 and 10 with up-to 10 devices. If you wanted to RAID three M2 SSDs, now you can. You could in theory also add M2 SSDs on a PCI-Express add-in card and have these join the RAID group. It is not yet known if the feature is a chipset function or a software based solution.

 

 

The good news is that the new RAID driver is bootable. This however will require a BIOS update. The driver and BIOS updates should become available starting September 25th.



AMD to Release NVMe RAID Support for X399 September 25th




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Aura89
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#5468256 Posted on: 08/31/2017 09:35 PM
People are so petty sometimes. Oh boo-hoo, so what if M.2 didn't have RAID?


Someone's salty.

schmidtbag
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#5468258 Posted on: 08/31/2017 09:42 PM
Someone's salty.

A bit ironic of a statement, considering I'm making fun of the people who are salty that they paid for a product with a useless feature that wasn't available until a little bit later.

I don't see what's salty about what I said, specifically, the statement you quoted.

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#5468260 Posted on: 08/31/2017 09:59 PM
Well, other than you know, the benefits of RAID :p Redundancy and data security...

I guess, but cloud storage and system backups will generally take care of things on that front. I'd be more worried about data redundancy when it comes to long-term storage, but I never store that kind of data on my boot drive - my boot drive is strictly for the OS and applications. What I care about when it comes to the boot drive is speed, and I'm skeptical as to whether NVMe RAID would noticeably boost loading times.

Still, a feature is a feature, and free stuff is always nice. I suppose I could try it out when they release the update, assuming I can get my hands on another 960 Evo.

nosirrahx
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#5468281 Posted on: 09/01/2017 12:02 AM
Don't flame me, but I have a question: under what circumstances does it make sense to go RAID on M2?
I've read an interesting article a couple of years ago @TH where they clearly stated that other than benchmarking there was no gain.
Of couse they could be wrong/outdated.
Also, can you have TRIM support on the RAID?

No flame at all but I will answer this as someone that has NVMe RAID on 2 different systems as boot devices.

With RAID 1 you get both ~2X read speed (the reads are distributed) and obviously additional security from being able to survive a drive failure. You do pay the 50% drive space penalty though so this is a niche use case where $ is not really an issue.

The place where it seems noticeable is booting, splash vanish -> desktop is over in a flash. You are right though, in the majority of situations you are talking are the difference between faster than you can perceive and even faster than you can perceive so you really can't tell.

BTW, you should see how fast Windows 10 (bloatware free) Installs from an SanDisk Extreme Pro 3.1 onto 2 960 Pros in raid, its like watching a fake simulation of an install.

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#5468305 Posted on: 09/01/2017 02:18 AM
I really like my Samsung 960 pro but Ets2 + Promods still takes an age to load so it would be good if raid helped,

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