Eight NVMe M2 SSDs in RAID on X399 Threadripper Reach 28 GB/s

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/27/2017 08:59 PM | source: | 32 comment(s)

So some folks are have been playing around with eight NVMe M2 SSDs in RAID on X399 Threadripper. See, NVMe RAID support wasn't supported up-to the 25th of this month. I have not seen the new driver myself but some folks have been able to create a RAID array of eight NVMe SSDs.

Der8auer was one of then, yet the video was taken down. From the looks of it he created his RAID array on an ASUS X399 motherboard as the UEFI shows everything ROG. So that is the ROG Zenith Extreme. Two ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 cards combined with eight Samsung 960 PRO/EVO SSD show IOmeter transfer speeds in a excess of .... 28375.84 MB/s. That's the funky thing about Threadripper RAID, the platform has so many PCIe Express lanes that is actually is capable of pushing such numbers.

Daumn ! AMD team, get me sum of that please!

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Fediuld
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#5476401 Posted on: 09/28/2017 12:52 AM

That.... fast.

Actually DDR4 2133 has only 25gb/s throughput!!!!!!!
That raid is 10% faster!!!!!!

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#5476402 Posted on: 09/28/2017 12:53 AM

Windows loads before you even push the button

varkkon
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#5476422 Posted on: 09/28/2017 03:01 AM

OMG! That is amazing, AMD owns.

Yeah no update for the MSI mobo, must be Friday I am betting.

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#5476461 Posted on: 09/28/2017 07:42 AM

Wait.....so you can somehow do raid using both the pci slots and using the m.2 slots using pci lanes...at the same time, that's crazy.

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#5476463 Posted on: 09/28/2017 07:52 AM

Wait.....so you can somehow do raid using both the pci slots and using the m.2 slots using pci lanes...at the same time, that's crazy.

Actually on Carbon and Zenith but not the Gaming 7, they come with 4 pci-e 16x slots. So if correct, you can use the top pci-e slot for GPU at 16x, and the next 3 PCI-e slots with expansion cards for 4 M2 drives each. (12 in total)
And all of them would still directly communicate to the CPU at full capacity and speed. (64 lanes)

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