![]() I tell you what, LAN limitations and on-site drawbacks considered I'm having a hell of a slow time consolidating previous workstation incarnations (cross platform) into the new machine. #AMD ZEN TIME SPENT PORTABLE#In theory, it's even portable across operating systems, although the Linux version seems to be sprouting new features that other OSes don't have, so you wouldn't be able to use those volumes on anything but Linux. ![]() ZFS is better still, but that's a whole software stack off in its own area, sort of a combo of md and a filesystem all in one. (note that you layer a filesystem on top of an mdraid, so you could have portability issues at that level as well.) Basically, if you create an mdraid, any Linux should be able to use it, so emergency recovery is much easier. AFAIK, you can even move an mdraid volume to an entirely different architecture, like ARM or RISCV. It has all the disadvantages of regular software RAID, plus then you're locked into only using those drives with Intel boards. There's just enough of a hardware interface to look like a hardware device, but then the CPU does all the work. It's not even hardware RAID in that case. I don't like using anything but ZFS for file storage these days. Software RAID is as good or better day to day and 1000% better when something fails and you have to recover. Yeah, nobody should be using hardware RAID these days outside large enterprise environments (where you call some poor third party to fix it when it breaks). AMD's solution is almost certain to be the same on both counts. It's also proprietary, meaning that you can only move it to other Intel boards. On Intel boards, at least, it's a really thin shim to make software RAID look like a hardware controller. I haven't used the x570 flavor, but chipset RAID is normally awful. ![]()
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