One of the most interesting features about AMD’s X399 platform is the fact that there are 64 PCIe lanes. While 4 lanes are dedicated to the chipset, the other 60 lanes are for PCIe devices such as graphics cards, a sound card and NVMe SSDs. According to the latest rumors, AMD’s Threadripper platform is not going to allow for NVMe RAID configurations. Although for some this feature might be important, we don't think is a big loss.


According to a post from Tom's Hardware, it has been reported that NVMe RAID is not supported on AMD’s X399 platform. AMD is currently working on this but at the moment is not clear when this is going to be solved. In other words, since the launch is very close, we believe that this feature won't be ready during the next days.

However with recent and modern NVMe SSD, the performance is already on a very high level and we believe that NVMe RAID is not really a big loss. For example, a Samsung 960 Pro NVMe SSD can easily hit in read 3'500 MB/s which is an impressive speed. The only thing that really can’t be configured is redundancy using a RAID1 configuration for instance or even a RAID5 for improved performance and redundancy. Keeping in mind the very low RMA rates of M.2 SSDs even this doesn’t seem like an issue to make a big fuss about.

What do you guys think: is support for NVMe RAID something every high-end chipset should feature?




Source: Tom's Hardware