Raid 0 of intel 750 series pci need some help

[Cneves]

Hello folks!!

I would like to know if is possible to make a Raid 0 of 2 Intel SSDs 750 series 400GB PCI (non sata)
I have just one gpu in the first PCI bay.

Is there some incompability around the others pci bays? Until now i know that pci Raid 0 is possible via Software.

In fact i just need more performance to edit large raw files in lightroom, and RAM (to ramdisk) is much more expensive

Anyone has a similar Raid 0? what about the performance?

Or... should I wait for Optane SSD??? (3D Xpoint)

many thanks


Cristina

[Praz]

Hello

The X99 platform lacks the capability needed to RAID PCIe drives. As noted software RAID only.

[Chino]

Hello Cristina,

Yes, it's possible to put two Intel 750 in a RAID 0 array with your specific configuration. Unfortunately you can only do a software RAID on with X99 chipset which means that it won't be bootable.

[FuryA]

Cneves wrote:
Hello folks!!

I would like to know if is possible to make a Raid 0 of 2 Intel SSDs 750 series 400GB PCI (non sata)
I have just one gpu in the first PCI bay.

Is there some incompability around the others pci bays? Until now i know that pci Raid 0 is possible via Software.

In fact i just need more performance to edit large raw files in lightroom, and RAM (to ramdisk) is much more expensive

Anyone has a similar Raid 0? what about the performance?

Or... should I wait for Optane SSD??? (3D Xpoint)

many thanks


Cristina

hi Cneves


This is a known technical limitation of x99 platform
it doesn't suport PCIe/M.2 SSD for building RAID system:(

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Not sure Raid 0 would bring much to the performance table these days over the soon to be available large fast M2 ssds.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2182564

Maybe raid some ssds on sata?

You can raid PCIe drives but only software RAID ...not a bootable RAID setup. However RAID 0 of course means insreased data risk.

I reckon you'd have to be a very niche case to get much benefit in lightroom this way...

Overclock the CPU would bring you more performance 😉

[Zarathustraa]

What I've read about NVME drives is there is a performance improvement with 2, but performance is actually lower if you raid 0 more than 2 drives. That being said I don't think most motherboards can support two raid 0 drives, without taking away from other pcie slots. Probably need to wait for Skylake E for it to be worth it.

[Cneves]

I understand... i think the best solution is Ramdisk. Let´s go set up one