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Super Fast NVMe RAID Comes To Threadripper (zdnet.com)
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.
While it's annoying that I had to push the Threadripper upgrade further down the line, at least AMD is polishing the hell out of it until I'm ready to buy. Ir Zen2 will be a thing by then and everything starts anew :D.
bios fake raid sucks and needs a driver to hide the disks from the os.
you are better at least on Linux with os level software raid or an hardware raid card that only shows the os the raided disk and does not need to hide the backing disks with a driver.
Hardware RAID is obsolete. Even the big boys like NetApp use SW RAID with SIMD instructions on standard CPUs these days.
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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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