Super Fast NVMe RAID Comes To Threadripper (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday October 2, 2017 @07:30AM from the racing-up dept.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, writing for ZDNet: A week later than planned, AMD has released a free driver update for the X399 platform to support NVMe RAID. The driver allows X399 motherboards to combine multiple NVMe SSDs together into a RAID 0, 1, or 10 array, which will greatly enhance disk performance or data integrity. Benchmarking carried out by AMD shows that the platform allows for a throughput of 21.2GB/s from six 512GB Samsung 960 Pro NVMe SSDs in RAID0. But there are a couple of caveats. The first is that X399 motherboards will require BIOS updates before they will support NVMe RAID, so when it will be available for your system will depend on your motherboard vendor. The second -- and perhaps more important -- is that currently the NVMe RAID driver is in beta, and as such things may go wrong, so you might want to test this before rolling it out onto systems you rely on.

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Re:Sweet by cayenne8 · 2017-10-02 08:31 · Score: 3, Interesting

Yeah, I'm looking at possibly building a computer with Threadripper into a unit for using Davinci Resolve...maybe to even edit 4K footage natively without proxies.
That's a mighty powerful FREE program, but whew...it eats up resources.
It appears Resolve now also works on Linux for the free version. I'd really like to play with that.

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