• Insanely fast NVMe RAID comes to Threadripper
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Worth noting that it's only RAID 0, 1, and 10. X299 technically has 3 "levels" of VROC (NVME Raid): $0: Intel VROC Pass-Through - NVME booting. $99: Intel VROC Standard - RAID 0,1,10 $199(?): Intel VROC Premium - Adds RAID 5
[QUOTE=glitchvid;52739800]Worth noting that it's only RAID 0, 1, and 10. X299 technically has 3 "levels" of VROC (NVME Raid): $0: Intel VROC Pass-Through - NVME booting. $99: Intel VROC Standard - RAID 0,1,10 $199(?): Intel VROC Premium - Adds RAID 5[/QUOTE] So what you're saying is that you're getting all of this for free, while intel is charging $99 for it? That's pretty neat. I'm not sure what the big point of hardware RAID5 is, especially for NVMe, much safer to use a software-based filesystem solution that prevents bitrot and the like.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52749323]Imagine paying for what's basically silicon on-disk DLC[/QUOTE] Some corporate RAID controller cards do that too, which I guess is where Intel got the inspiration. But (unsurprisingly) once the key is cracked, the "piracy" is rampant.
[QUOTE=Van-man;52749865]Some corporate RAID controller cards do that too, which I guess is where Intel got the inspiration. But (unsurprisingly) once the key is cracked, the "piracy" is rampant.[/QUOTE] Yeah flashing system OEM cards with the actual card OEM's firmware is fairly common as it has the full feature set. [editline]5th October 2017[/editline] IIRC IBM is pretty fond of pushing out locked down LSI cards
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