AMD Raid

[ctank]

Hi,

Im going for AMD, and was wondering how to put disks to raid. I have 2 storage hard drives as raid 0 now. Does AMD motherboards have some kind of raid setup in BIOS or? How does they generally work good/bad compared to Intel?

 

[DrMrLordX]

What kind of hard drives are you using? Platter-based HDDs? SATA3 SSDs?

AMD boards do have various RAID options depending on which board you get, and which platform. You generally get the best RAID options on AMD's TR4 motherboard since they have so many PCIe lanes.

 

[ctank]

I have 2 HDD (mechanical) hard drives SATA 6. And going for Ryzen 3000/X570. OH and I ment Raid 1.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Okay. With those SATA speeds, you won't suffer from any problems with PCIe lane availability. What you need to do is look at the individual motherboard and see if it has hardware RAID support. I'm pretty sure most x370 and x470 boards could do hardware RAID with two platter-based SATA drives. For example:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370 Taichi/index.asp#Specification

That's my motherboard from two years ago. It has two SATA controllers: the on--chip one and the ASM1061. As long as you use the on-chip one (provides 8 SATA ports), you can get RAID 0, 1, or 10. But not RAID5.

Here's a RAID configuration guide for one of ASRock's x399 motherboards:

http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/RAID/Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming/English.pdf

I'm pretty sure the RAID setup will be the same across most of the post-Ryzen AMD platforms.

 

[ctank]

Thank you very much for great info! Just what I needed to know