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Eight NVMe M2 SSDs in RAID on X399 Threadripper Reach 28 GB/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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#5476352 Posted on: 09/27/2017 08:15 PM
Damn thats crazy. People building high end workstations should be having fun this year.
Damn thats crazy. People building high end workstations should be having fun this year.
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#5476368 Posted on: 09/27/2017 08:51 PM
Wow, that's some crazy speed there. X399 looks ideal for anyone looking for high I/O throughput.
I don't need too much in the way of I/O, but I'd be interested in trying out a RAID configuration on my TR system (maybe when I can get my hands on another 960 Evo).
Wow, that's some crazy speed there. X399 looks ideal for anyone looking for high I/O throughput.
I don't need too much in the way of I/O, but I'd be interested in trying out a RAID configuration on my TR system (maybe when I can get my hands on another 960 Evo).
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#5476371 Posted on: 09/27/2017 08:59 PM
Saw video before he put it down, don't know reason,maybe has something to do with Asus cards for m.2 .He said in video they are currently not available for sale,maybe they are under NDA
Saw video before he put it down, don't know reason,maybe has something to do with Asus cards for m.2 .He said in video they are currently not available for sale,maybe they are under NDA
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#5476388 Posted on: 09/27/2017 10:51 PM
That.... fast.
That.... fast.
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#5476401 Posted on: 09/27/2017 11:52 PM
Actually DDR4 2133 has only 25gb/s throughput!!!!!!!
That raid is 10% faster!!!!!!
That.... fast.
Actually DDR4 2133 has only 25gb/s throughput!!!!!!!
That raid is 10% faster!!!!!!
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#5476402 Posted on: 09/27/2017 11:53 PM
Windows loads before you even push the button
Windows loads before you even push the button
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#5476422 Posted on: 09/28/2017 02:01 AM
OMG! That is amazing, AMD owns.
Yeah no update for the MSI mobo, must be Friday I am betting.
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 06:42 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.
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 06:52 AM
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)
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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#5476546 Posted on: 09/28/2017 12:44 PM
That cards look so good. There should be simple physical adapter and then not so expensive.
They do not look having an array chip of some kind.
That cards look so good. There should be simple physical adapter and then not so expensive.
They do not look having an array chip of some kind.
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#5476554 Posted on: 09/28/2017 01:02 PM
Holy Moly!
Holy Moly!
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#5476561 Posted on: 09/28/2017 01:19 PM
What i amounts to is greatly expanded cheap memory for some tasks.
It can be virtualised by hosting the windows swap file , or vega's hbcc can use it to simulate gpu cache.
The respective speeds, historicaally clearly separating storage from ram, have become a blurred boundary.
What i amounts to is greatly expanded cheap memory for some tasks.
It can be virtualised by hosting the windows swap file , or vega's hbcc can use it to simulate gpu cache.
The respective speeds, historicaally clearly separating storage from ram, have become a blurred boundary.
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#5476570 Posted on: 09/28/2017 01:34 PM
Damn at that speed Windows is going to be doing stuff before you even think to do stuff!
It can tell the future!
Damn at that speed Windows is going to be doing stuff before you even think to do stuff!
It can tell the future!
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#5476669 Posted on: 09/28/2017 05:23 PM
Nice throughput, how's the IOPS?
Nice throughput, how's the IOPS?
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Seem like Der8auer is getting quite some attention lately.