Dear AMD Community Users / EPYC experts / and official AMD representatives (if you read this),
for personnal reasons, I am considering building an home made HEDT workstation using next generation (Zen 3 ?) EPYC processor.
I am not in a hurry, and I am still waiting need to see the eco-system around EPYC processors to settle a little bit, especially motherboard availibility and stability for consumers like me.
In the meantime, I am evaluating the current options, and I noticed something.
I already have a home made PC using competitor CPU, and what I liked about my system is that I was able OOTB to easyly setup a (software) RAID0 / SSD volume from which my Windows OS is booting.
This has been working flawlessly since 2015, and I was able to enjoy NVMe like performance on an 1.8 TB volume (4 x 500 GB) even before true 'TB' M.2 NVMe were generaly available, and for a very fair price at the time.
It really emphasize the value of using 'Redundant Array Inexpensive Disk' for better performance.
And even if RAID experts call that 'fake-RAID', I found that software RAID combined with SSD is a winner combination as it remove the 'mechanical' weakness of HDDs and even the need for 'cache'.
So of course, for my next system I would like to do the same with an AMD CPU.
I figured out that AMD provides so called 'RAIDXpert2' technology to setup a RAID volume at the BIOS/UEFI level.
However, it seems that technology is specifically NOT available for EPYC processors;
https://drivers.amd.com/relnotes/amd-raidxpert2_user_guide.pdf
is there a reason for that ?
because ultimately, here is what I believe:
I believe there is NO point of providing multple SATA ports (up to a dozen sometime) on any MOBO if there is no way of combining them in a RAID (0, 1, 5) volume and seamlessly boot a Windows or Linux from it.
would someone disagree ?
if no, is there a way to convey that question to AMD ?
if yes, explain me why ?
Thanks very much for your attention and future replies/comments.
