ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 on X99

[joshuawi99]

Hey guys,

so my plan is to get the ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 NVMe SSD expansion card with four 970 evo 512gb SSD´s. I read some articles about it and i only saw threadripper / x299 Boards being used in those builds. Do you think this is possible with an X99 Rampage V Edition 10 in RAID?

 

Thanks and greetings

 

[BobVonBob]

It should work just fine, but you definitely won't be able to use hardware RAID, only software.

 

Also why, NVMe drives are fast enough without RAID.

 

Edit: Nope

[joshuawi99]

Just now, BobVonBob said:

It should work just fine, but you definitely won't be able to use hardware RAID, only software.

 

Also why, NVMe drives are fast enough without RAID.

Okay and why excactly i cannot do any Hardware RAID with the onboard controller?

[BobVonBob]

Just now, joshuawi99 said:

Okay and why excactly i cannot do any Hardware RAID with the onboard controller?

Older gen hardware doesn't support hardware raid of NVMe drives, even Threadripper didn't until recently.

[joshuawi99]

15 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

Older gen hardware doesn't support hardware raid of NVMe drives, even Threadripper didn't until recently.

 

2 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

no. you'll require motherboards that supports x4/x4/x4/x4 bifurcation of x16 slots (and that's only recently possible on certain X299 and X399 motherboards, check spec pages)

Hmm yeah that seems to be problematic. All NVMe Raid Cards are pretty expensive

[BobVonBob]

7 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

no. you'll require motherboards that supports x4/x4/x4/x4 bifurcation of x16 slots (and that's only recently possible on certain X299 and X399 motherboards, check spec pages)

Huh, so it does, ASRock should really make that more clear on the card's page. If your motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation (doesn't actually need to be X299 or X399, but those support it more often) then it will work, otherwise it won't, and I would suspect it doesn't.

[BobVonBob]

1 minute ago, VegetableStu said:

they do ._. https://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/product.asp?Model=ULTRA QUAD M.2 CARD#SupportList

(couldn't find Asus's one outside of the US though (dammit Asus))

 

although board makers seem to assume consumers understand bifurcation since it's not on the front page of the item ._.

I wouldn't call one line and a picture on ASRock's notoriously incomplete support pages to be "clear" (although almost every manufacturers support pages suck), it's not even on the spec page, where it seems like it would fit nicely.

[K1LLFACE]

On 2/7/2019 at 3:43 AM, joshuawi99 said:

Hey guys,

so my plan is to get the ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 NVMe SSD expansion card with four 970 evo 512gb SSD´s. I read some articles about it and i only saw threadripper / x299 Boards being used in those builds. Do you think this is possible with an X99 Rampage V Edition 10 in RAID?

 

Thanks and greetings

 

I know this was over a year ago but I think this is what you were looking for at the time. May not be as fast as a single x16 but looks like it will run 4 with bifurcation on just about any system in raid setup at the max speed of any drive you had installed previously maybe faster depending on setup.Costly.

 

https://www.amazon.com/ADWITS-Adapter-Supports-Bifurcation-Compatible/dp/B07KFX8287

 

https://www.amazon.com/vdp/1cfda0a79367489793112c719e197ac3?ref=rvs_ref0