AMD's Ryzen Threadripper CPUs get free NVMe RAID support
from PC world 02 October indexed on 02 October 2017 20:01If you've splurged on a monstrous Ryzen Threadripper processor, you can now put its ludicrous 64 PCIe lanes to use supercharging your already-supercharged storage—or making sure your data won't disappear with a hardware failure. Monday morning, AMD released beta drivers that unlock RAID support for NVMe drives on the Threadripper platform, as controversy continues to swirl around Intel's rival VROC implementation for Core i9 chips. NVMe solid-state drives like the ludicrously fast Samsung 960 Pro are the fastest storage you can buy, and RAID technology lets you combine the powers of several individual drives. The new Threadripper drivers support RAID 0, 1, and 10. (You can boot your PC from the RAID array, too!) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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