Intel VROC Problems

[ZXSpectrum]

Hi All,

 

Is it just me or is Intel VROC a troll? I have been in discussions with Asus trying to get a problem rectified for months now with ZERO resolution.

 

I have tried a significant amount of configurations and have had no success whatsoever. 

 

So the current system i am trying to get VROC to work with is as follows:

 

Intel I9-7960X

Asus WS X299 Pro With Asus Hyper NVMe 16X (4 way M.2 Adapter) & VROCPREMMOD

32Gb DDR4 3000Mhz

Windows 10 Pro 1709 fully updated

(Irrelevant components: 1Kw PSU, Quadro P1000, Corsair 400Q)

 

So the configurations i have tried:

 

4 x 500Gb Samsung SM961

4 x 500Gb Samsung Evo 960

4 x 1Tb Samsung Pro 960

 

I have several VROC keys including: VROCISSDMOD and VROCPREMMOD

 

So i have tried everything as far as i can tell to get this configuration to work with no luck at all. I have set the PCIe slot in the CPU Storage Configuration to Asus Hyper 16X (VROC MODE) in the BIOS but regardless of what drives it has in it, a) the BIOS will only see 2 of the drives and b) they will not allow a RAID array to be configured as it constantly states (UNSUPPORTED)

 

According to Intel the SM951/961 are supported. I find it highly annoying that not only have Intel released a chipset that has poorer support, terrible compatibility and worse performance than the previous chipset (x99) and then expect to purchase a VROC key to get it to run via the PCIe from the CPU rather than the PCH and even then it doesn't work. 

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

[faziten]

Thats the price of the bleeding edge.

Skylake-X is a rushed out platform to keep the crown of most powerfull consumer oriented hardware. Very little things made sense, and mainstream platform is getting all the attention.

 

Waiting is your only choise since, there is little to no info regarding this particular high end config.

 

Have you considered a Raid controller? I get budget is not an issue.