Data transmission over 28 GB / s is realized in AMD's Ryzen Threadripper environment using 8 M.2 type SSDs

AMD's high-end desktop CPU "Ryzen Threadripper"The new driver corresponding to NVMe RAID was scheduled to be released on September 25, 2017PostponementIt was done. However, a strong man who connected NVMe-compliant SSDs with RAID 0 using the undisclosed NVMe-compliant RAID driver appeared, and has bought a tremendous transfer speed of 28 GB / s over.

[H] ardOCP: Eight NVME Drives RAIDed on AMD Ryzen Threadripper
https://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/09/25/eight_nvme_drives_raided_on_amd_ryzen_threadripper

The fastest SSD was built on the Ryzen Threadripper compatible motherboard because youTuber's famous PC-related movieder8auerMr. Unfortunately, the published YouTube movie has been withdrawn at the time of article creation and is not viewable.

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der8auer is a RAID card for PCI-Express connection that can mount four M.2 type SSDs "Hyper M.2 x16 CardUsing two Samsung SSD "960 PRO"We assembled the system with a total of 8 loaded.


The used motherboard is "ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME". In the new UEFI, "X4 / X4 / X4 / X4 Mode" can be selected with "PCIEX16_1 Bandwidth".


When applying the new driver of AMD and measuring the transfer speed of SSD with 8 strips of high-speed SSD corresponding to NVMe, benchmark softwareIOmeterThe value at "28375.84 MB / s". It is an astounding figure of reading 28 GB per second.


In addition, it is unknown whether motherboards from manufacturers other than ASUS will support high-speed data transfer by Hyper M.2 x 16 Card. ASUS motherboard equipped with Core-X compatible Intel chipset X299 "PRIME X299-DELUXE"It seems to be expected to correspond to high-speed data transfer using Hyper M.2 x 16 Card.

◆ 2017/10/03 additional note
NVMe RAID compatible driver for X399 chipset has been released.

Gaming: Now available: Free NVMe RAID upgrade f ... ... Community
https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2017/10/02/now-available-free-nvme-raid-upgrade-for-amd-x399-chipset