A lot of info in the earlier posts in this section when the R6E was first rolling out. Been awhile but I do recall I attempted it and ended up returning the hyperXboard mostly because it was all hyper, not much of anything else. I could not get third party drives to work. Intel drives ll day and part of tomorrow. May have better luck with the SAGE. Third party drives require commercial licenses and keys. Only endeavor I saw that worked was a member used 900P 2.5 inch drives with M2 adaptors with impressive results but card had to be stripped down and covers left off to get all the wiring into the card. Only other M2 intel cards that would mount on the HyperX as intended would be the optane sticks that even fully loaded isnt enough to run an OS from.
I did see one instance where someone managed to get them working in a software raid.
Search VROC this section.....lots of reading....
I did see one instance where someone managed to get them working in a software raid.
Search VROC this section.....lots of reading....
Good luck on your quest.
You might want to read the literature again. It was never stated anywhere that this board would run VROC with anything but Intel drives. This argument came up and the wording was changed to make it even more obvious. So long as it works with intel drives you got the "feature". This isnt on ASUS, its on Intel and they got an earful as well on their forums. There is actually quite a bit going on here and a lot of reviewers sites. One reviewer, name slips my mind, ran every possible scenario and published results of what worked and what didn't. I personally tried 960 pros, didnt work...software only. Optane memory modules, work just fine but still too small with 4 drives and still not all that fast. Tried every scenario I could as I was on a quest too. So many different keys were bought by so many people as even the info for what key needed to be used wasn't available and they weren't talking except to say keys will be made available by Intel. Most keys did nothing, wasted money, Saw one member from the middle east that got his hands on a premium key and got the same thing, Intel drives only. I wish it wasnt so but........Just trying to save a fellow enthusiast some cash, headaches, ulcers and blood pressure medication...Maybe even some hair! Would be great to see someone back door Intels lock outs on this. Everyone before failed miserably, me included.
You might want to read the literature again. It was never stated anywhere that this board would run VROC with anything but Intel drives. This argument came up and the wording was changed to make it even more obvious. So long as it works with intel drives you got the "feature". This isnt on ASUS, its on Intel and they got an earful as well on their forums. There is actually quite a bit going on here and a lot of reviewers sites. One reviewer, name slips my mind, ran every possible scenario and published results of what worked and what didn't. I personally tried 960 pros, didnt work...software only. Optane memory modules, work just fine but still too small with 4 drives and still not all that fast. Tried every scenario I could as I was on a quest too. So many different keys were bought by so many people as even the info for what key needed to be used wasn't available and they weren't talking except to say keys will be made available by Intel. Most keys did nothing, wasted money, Saw one member from the middle east that got his hands on a premium key and got the same thing, Intel drives only. I wish it wasnt so but........Just trying to save a fellow enthusiast some cash, headaches, ulcers and blood pressure medication...Maybe even some hair! Would be great to see someone back door Intels lock outs on this. Everyone before failed miserably, me included.
Well, this has just been a very big waste of time - I know you say this is not an ASUS issue however, this should have been presented MUCH clearer that ONLY M.2 Drives from Intel would work - I wanted something simple, and that is High-Speed RAID 0 for boot in Hardware for OS load. So after review and statments like "It works with my Samsung" I took a chance and I bought the ASUS Hyper x16 Card (Nothing about Intel M.2 Drives Only for VROC on Card in ANY documentation).
I can not return my Samsung 2TB M.2 Drives now! Here is what I get when I try to build the RAID after adding the KEY that was NOT showing up without the KEY I am now looking for Another way to build a RAID 0 Boot that doesn't require special drivers for my system to boot Winows 10 with Samsung 970 drives!
I can not return my Samsung 2TB M.2 Drives now! Here is what I get when I try to build the RAID after adding the KEY that was NOT showing up without the KEY I am now looking for Another way to build a RAID 0 Boot that doesn't require special drivers for my system to boot Winows 10 with Samsung 970 drives!
G75rog wrote:
Highpoint just came out with a bootable NVME pcie X16 Raid card, the SSD7102. It can do bootable Raids or up to 4 individually bootable NVME's.
I'm going to get one to replace my Asus Hyper M.2 X16 card. 😄
Win 10, Win 7, Linux, and Mac OS on one card ought to do it!
Let us know how you make out with that. I I recall someone else tried a high point controller and it didn't work.
You can still build a raid 0 boot drive with the 970 pros but its down stream of the PCH controller so it hits the DMI bottleneck. Gains very little on sequential reads but loses write speeds and 4k goes into the toilet as the limits of a single drive are just about at the DMI X4 limit.. IMO the performance is actually worse. Get yourself a single 900P or 905P depending on your actual space needs for that speed and call it a day. While I gained large block sequential read with two intel drives in VROC raid0 the 4k went in the toilet and this is whats responsible for the extra snappiness you get. The intel drive outperform the Samsung drives in this arena by a factor of 6. Samsung drives 4k is around 50Mbps where the intel drives as a single drive is around 300.
900P single
960 pro single
Raid up two 900ps and you get 5400 sequential reads with 2 drives but the 4k drop back to 200 or so.
