Comments on: Samsung SM951 M.2 SSD RAID Review – Over 4GB/s and 300K IOPS A Consumer Option

By: jhhm

jhhm — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:39:00 +0000

In reply to Les@TheSSDReview. Any chance you could test CPU load as well? ASRock z170 Extreme7+ has 3 m.2 slots BTW.

By: jhhm

jhhm — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 02:09:00 +0000

Just wondering how was the CPU usage? RAID 0 is usually super low but these are some crazy transfer rates.

By: aakid22

aakid22 — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:09:00 +0000

I am building my first pc and am not too familiar with PCIe lanes. My motherboard is a MSI z170a gaming m7. If I raid two SM951 in the m.2 slots, will it use the 16 lanes from the standard PCIe slots?

By: Will

Will — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:26:00 +0000

In reply to Calvin. Thanks for the info. I don't need it as a boot drive, so it isn't a problem.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:45:00 +0000

In reply to Will. Yes, it should be possible. You may need to update your motherboard BIOS. Also, as far as I understand, the RAID on x99 is limited to a software RAID, so you won't be able to BOOT from the array, BUT there might be some fancy setup going on here with this specific AsRock x99 Extreme11 motherboard with its integrated LSI storage controller that could make booting from it possible. I wasn't able to find that info though.