AMD to Release NVMe RAID Support for X399 September 25th
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GALTARAUJO
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Of couse they could be wrong/outdated.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?
user1
D3M1G0D
What, AMD not selling a key to unlock it? 😉
I personally don't see the benefits of putting NVMe drives in RAID, but I don't deal with large amounts of data. At least people will stop complaining about it now.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
ontelo
AlmondMan
BLEH!
The ability to have 4+GB/s of read on SSD would be nice... :P
schmidtbag
People are so petty sometimes. Oh boo-hoo, so what if M.2 didn't have RAID? Despite the slap in the face from Intel's X299 RAID situation, that didn't stop anyone from buying it, because anyone who actually cares about real-world performance and data integrity/backups will not depend on RAID. On M.2, you'll lose performance in most tasks with RAID, due to reduction in latency.
Somehow, people are forgetting these are quad-channel DDR4 boards. There are 128GB modules. If you want sheer write speeds, go for a RAM disk. Even sequential writes on a RAID0 M.2 array will pale in comparison. Meanwhile, the latency will be even better than a single M.2 drive.
These PCs are going to cost at least $2000 - might as well go all-out.
EDIT:
Also, for anyone who wanted RAID on NVMe drives, why didn't they just go for software RAID? I highly doubt the motherboards come with an integrated hardware controller, so CPU usage is going to go up regardless. Not that it matters - what else are you going to do with all those threads?
Misha Engel
tunejunky
Schmidtbag is becoming my hero.
i fully planned on a 64gb set of ram for the threadripper 1900x (cannibalizing 32gb and buying another 32gb) for use as a ram disk.
and don't cha know - that will help gaming load times as well (tho i'd be playing as well as compiling, editing, or using my music suite at the same time - because its possible now).
:D:D:D:p
i hope availability is good both for 1900x and aorus gaming 7 😎 😎 😎
Aura89
schmidtbag
D3M1G0D
nosirrahx
The Goose
I really like my Samsung 960 pro but Ets2 + Promods still takes an age to load so it would be good if raid helped,
varkkon
Amazing! Man I love AMD these days, so the X399 platform and mobos are perfect now.
Cool, I am going to run RAID1 on 2 NVME drives for my work drive/setup. I can't wait.
varkkon
Athlonite
Hmmm they can manage to put out raid drivers for nvme on x399 but still can't provide a trim enabled raid driver for the 990FX chipset
schmidtbag
Athlonite
Mine is of the firmware variety because I boot from it and I run Windows 10 pro x64 on it and I've tried the separate SSD as boot and it's slower not by much mind you but still slower than my RAID0 array