AMD updates the BIOS of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors, offering official support for NVMe RAID technology, since these professional processors, initially, did not support this technology.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors hit the market with one limitation, they did not allow for NVMe RAID configurations. It is unknown because initially the motherboards with the TR4 socket and the X399 chipset did not initially have support for this type of configuration, so if we installed an NVMe RAID with the operating system on our computer, it would not start. This has already been solved, with a simple BIOS update, which was published on September 25th and of which we know more data today.

How could it be otherwise, it was once again der8auer who has shown the first results of an NVMe RAID with a Threadripper thanks to the new BIOS and has posted it on YouTube video. This video shows a configuration of eight NVMe drives with the AMD processor and the new BIOS. The video shortly after was deleted, we imagine that by express request of AMD, although there is no data, but it is not the first AMD video that this user uploads and ends up mysteriously disappearing.

Luckily we have a screenshot of how this system performs. For this, the ASUS X399 RoG Zenith Extreme motherboard has been used, with a total of eight Samsung 960 PRO units mounted on two ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 cards, in a configuration of four units for each of these cards. The software to measure the transfer rate has been IOmeter, which has given a result of 28375.84MB / s, a spectacular result. Now, what we still do not understand is because these processors, intended for the professional segment, initially did not offer support for NVMe RAID technology, something that clearly does not make the slightest sense.

Source: TPU