It looks like Roman "der8auer" has done another one of his “insane” tests. A few weeks ago AMD announced that their X399 platform now supports NVMe M.2 RAID. In that context Roman must have thought it would be a fun idea to see how much throughput can be achieve using as many M.2 NVMe SSDs as possible creating one massive RAID.



Therefore Roman “Der8auer” Hartung went on and took an ASUS ROG X399 motherboard and two ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 cards. In the case of the SSDs Samsung 960 drives were used and testing was conducted with IOmeter.

Apparently, the results are pretty impressive. All the eight drives together were capable of reaching 28'375 MB/s of raw throughput performance. So far it looks like Roman also had a little backup from AMD, since the NVMe RAID drivers and suitable BIOS versions are not yet available. Nevertheless AMD has indicated that they might release just that by the end of this week.

Creating massive NVMe M.2 RAIDs could make for some interesting opportunities in the case of workstations which require a lot of throughput performance.




Source: Expreview