AM4 M.2 RAID
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Topic: AM4 M.2 RAID
Posted By: asrock-fuchs
Subject: AM4 M.2 RAID
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2017 at 11:16pm
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" rel="nofollow - Hi, does any ASRock AM4 Board support RAID for Boards with 2x M.2 Slots? Thx & Regards |
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Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2017 at 12:22am
A more accurate question about this is, does the new AMD AM4 platform provide support for NVMe SSDs in AMD's RAID Expert feature? That feature would depend upon AMD providing it with their new system and chipsets. A mother board manufacture cannot provide more than the platform itself can provide. The answer as far as I can tell at this point is no, for several reasons. ASRock has always been a leader in providing the latest storage IO interfaces and technologies. If a PC platform has a capability like NVMe SSDs in RAID, ASRock would have it available. The only current platform that does provide RAID support of NMVe SSDs is some of the Intel 200 series chipsets. That is unique because the IO resources are provided by the chipset, rather than the PCIe lanes, as all other M.2 interfaces are implemented. That allows the Intel IRST RAID software to work with NVMe SSDs. The AMD AM4 platform is using the PCIe lanes for the M.2 slots, so the AMD RAID Expert software is not able to work with that interface. I also don't see anything about RAID support of NVMe M.2 SSDs in the new AMD RAID Expert manual for the new AM4 Ryzen boards. The M.2 slots on the AM4 boards support NVMe, AHCI, and SATA M.2 SSDs. If you were planning on using SATA M.2 SSDs, they should work in RAID. But I suspect you are asking about NVMe M.2 SSDs. ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow"> 
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