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AMD NVMe/SATA RAID Quick Start Guide for
Windows Operating Systems
Chapter 1
General Information
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Chapter 1
General Information
1.1
Purpose
This Quick Start Guide is designed to assist with system setup in
RAID Mode
, by
performing these general procedures:
•
Copy AMD RAID device drivers to removable storage media for Microsoft
®
Windows x64.
•
Load AMD RAID device drivers on a system during Windows operating system installation.
•
Install the AMD-RAIDXpert2 (GUI) for RAID array management.
1.2
System Requirements
Table 1. System Requirements
Component
Requirements
Memory (RAM)
Minimum: 16 GB total for AMD Ryzen
®
processors and AMD Ryzen
®
desktop
processors.
Recommended: 32 GB total for AMD Ryzen
®
processors and AMD Ryzen
®
desktop processors.
Hard Disk, SSD
Total 14 devices
Support includes ATAPI DVD, SATA drives, SATA SSD drives, M.2 SATA
drives, NVMe M.2 devices, NVMe HHHL devices or NVMe U.2 devices.
The number of disks depends on the number, type, and capacity of the arrays to be
created.
Max number of
NVMe devices
10
Max Controller
Count
11: Two controllers with device ID 0x7917, one controller with device ID 0x43BD
and NVMe (one controller per NVMe)
11: One controller with device ID 0x7916, one controller with device ID 0x43BD
and NVMe (one controller per NVMe)
Supported AMD
Processors
3
rd
Gen AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper Processor
3
rd
Gen AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processor
2
nd
Gen AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ Processor
2
nd
Gen AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processor
AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ Processor
AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processor
AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processor with Radeon™ Vega Graphics
Supported AMD
Chipsets
AMD X570 Chipset
AMD X470 Chipset
AMD X399 Chipset
AMD B450 Chipset
AMD X370 Chipset
AMD B350 Chipset
AMD A320 Chipset
AMD TRX40/WRX80
