Professional Media Server MOBO

[gabriel.weck]

Hello there. I'm researching a new build for a machine that will be used as professional media server using dataton watchout software. I'm interested in buying THE Asus WS C422 SAGE/10G but I can't find any review about that board and specially if it is possible to configure 2 Samsung 960 PRO Series - 2TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 drives as Raid 0.

Does anyone messed with that board yet? Thanks

 

[kanewolf]

Have you determined what bandwidth you need? SSDs in RAID (especially NVMe) don't generally have any performance improvement in most software.

 

[gabriel.weck]

Something around 15000MB/s would be great.

I thought making a raid 0 configuration with two of this Samsung 960 PRO would improve RAW read/write speeds. Am I wrong at this? Is it possible to make this configuration with this board?

What kind of configuration would you recommend for achieving this bandwidth?

 

[kanewolf]

15 GB/s ? That is 10x what your 10GE can output ...

 

[gabriel.weck]

Its not for network. I'll play 3x 4k uncompressed outputing with a w9100 graphics card. Do you know any answer for the questions above?

 

[kanewolf]

15 GB/s is getting to RAM rates. I know of no storage subsystem that doesn't cost $$$$ that will provide 15GB/s.

 

[kanewolf]

This page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncompressed_video says 950MB/s for 4K uncompressed. Your 15,000MB/s is way off.
You would want 3,000MB/s for 3x streams at 60FPS.

 

[kanewolf]

Some of the PCIe cards like the Intel P4600 can do 3,000MB/s in reads.

 

[gabriel.weck]

OK, Samsung's 960 PRO NVME will give me 3500MB/s, P4600 will give me around 3000MB/s and thats nice. My original question was if im can RAID 0 two of this drives (intel or samsung) with this Asus WS C422 SAGE/10G.

This MOBO has enought PCIe slots as well as m.2 slots to fit two of this drives mentioned above. But I wonder if I can get them to work in RAID 0 straight out of the box or if i need to purchase some kind of wierd Intel VROC license.

Also, if the RAID 0 do work, is it dafe to assume I'll be seeing speeds close do 7000MB/s?

Thanks for the patience kanewolf

 

[kanewolf]

The specs for that motherboard show two PCIe x4 slots. That motherboard has support for the Intel VROC so I think you can RAID the drives. I have no idea what the scaling is.