AMD's gratis driver update for its X399 platform is finally here.
It took AMD a picayune longer than expected, only the companionship has similar a shot made practiced on its hope to deliver a gratis driver update to add together RAID back upward for NVMe drives on Threadripper setups.
The driver arrives a calendar week afterward than originally planned—AMD delayed the rollout to ensure that everything worked the agency it should. When it announced the delay finally week, AMD indicated it would hold out a brusk hold off in addition to that it would brand it "with no strings attached." And in addition to then it has.
One thing to banknote is that these are notwithstanding beta drivers. For mission critical setups, you lot may desire to hold off a fight to encounter how things milkshake out. That is particularly truthful if you're planning a speedy RAID 0 configuration. While fast, at that topographic point is no redundancy inward RAID 0—if i of the drives goes bad, you lot lose the entire array, or at to the lowest degree its data.
The other RAID types that are supported include RAID 1 in addition to RAID 10. In RAID 1 setups, you're trading speed for redundancy yesteryear having your information mirrored across multiple drives. RAID ten offers both speed in addition to redundancy, amongst the caveat of requiring 4 or 6 NVMe drives. In both RAID 1 in addition to RAID 10, drives are hot swappable on Threadripper.
AMD provided about internal benchmarks from running multiple NVMe drives inward RAID 0. Have a look:
Obtaining NVMe RAID back upward origin requires updating your motherboard's BIOS. AMD says it expects all X399 boards to hold out updated imminently, only the exact engagement volition depend on your motherboard's vendor.
Once that is inward place, you lot tin configure your NVMe RAID array from inside the BIOS, or amongst AMD's RAIDXpert2 software.
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