New 2230 SSD models worth the wait?

Find me a 2230 with DRAM that’s not an OEM special drive.

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aah.
I must mention, there is a high chance you can get a 2x NVMe carrier for the GPU-less version. Framework in fact made it the reference design for expansion bay modules. At least Linus said that.

I don’t think you can do Intel RST (not that the 16 even ships with an Intel) and do RAID 5 on 4 SSDs. (PCIe lane allocation, etc, etc). But that would be totally sick.

Maybe AMD have something similar, but there is simply no way. Or are there?
I don’t know. You can find out.

If you use an os that isn’t windows you can easily boot off software raid (or even better stuff like zfs) that doesn’t have a weird bios layer and a pseudo driver stuffed in between.

And if you use windows you could put the os on the 2230 and have a software raid 5 over the other 3.

At least on desktop they do

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I know windows natively support software raid through various methods. I am not too sure how you would make a raid 5 in the installer, though.

Pretty sure you can’t install windows to any kind of os level software raid

My memories are that once you have Windows installed you can mirror the drive if you need some redundancy.

Depends who you are. Most people, no.

Microsoft, to cheap out on 1TB SSDs, sure, just bung in 2 512GBs and cobble it with Spaces.

Out of curiosity how would “not most people” install windows to an os level software raid?

By being Microsoft and doing special jiggery pokery with their Surface tablets

Interesting, cursed but interesting.

Yea, under normal circumstances you can use Storage Spaces to combine or mirror anything but the boot/os disk.

If you wipe the Surface “disk”, it ends up as 2 separate disks again, and you have to use a special Microsoft install to get it back, there’s no way to do it via the standard Windows install.