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Doug
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2024
Intel VROC has a long way to go to make it as a replacement for MegaRaid hardware controllers. I have a new Xeon Gold CPU and motherboard with a C621A chipset with latest bios (4 x M.2 slots on the motherboard). I converted two of these M.2s to hot swap trays using SFF-8612 adapters. This combination of CPU and Motherboard supports VROC 8.0. The Dongle worked perfectly to get this up and running, so 4 stars for the product. I created a new Raid1 volume in Windows 11 using 2T Crucial T500 Gen 4 M.2s, and the performance looked pretty good overall. The problem came when I tried swapping out one of the drives to save a clean backup. I shut down the system to take a clean image and removed one drive. Then I re-booted the computer (so far so good), and installed a blank replacement drive in the empty slot. The first problem is the Crucial did not activate on hot insertion or with a re-scan (might be a Crucial issue on this one), so I rebooted to get the drive to come online. The next problem is the VROC did not see the replacement as a new drive in the same slot, so it did not automatically start the rebuild (I had turned on hot insert auto rebuild, but it did not consider this an equivalent event). At this time the removed drive still showed as a ghost 0 size drive. Starting the rebuild required manual intervention and only started after marking the new drive as a hot spare. However, the old drive still shows as a 0 byte ghost drive (w/only the old drive serial number shown) on port 2 (I am only using 0 and 1, so this was interesting. Rebuild was fast and the ghost drive went away once the rebuild was completed. The scary part is the array shows as not bootable and not initialized during the rebuild process, so I probably won't be re-booting this system during rebuilds, which I have done many times with hardware raid and it just continues the rebuild process where it left off. Overall VROC does the job I need it to do, but the process is nowhere near as automated/seamless as hardware raid. Maybe this will get better after more NVMe suppliers add support for hot inserts, and Intel makes more improvements to the rebuild process/triggers. You should be able to reboot during a rebuild if you want your solution to be considered fully redundant..
TechnoStar
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2024
Very fast shipping. VROC key in original sealed packaging. I now have full Raid functionality in my Dell workstation for 2 Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe drives. Impressed with the performance increase using Raid 0.
Winerover
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024
no issues works perfectly from first startup
Paul
Reviewed in Germany on July 26, 2022
Wird sofort vom Mainboard erkannt, deswegen zwei Sterne. Der Händler hat den Artikel problemlos umgetauscht.Geplant waren 3x 980 Pro im RAID0 auf einem Rampage IV Omega, also nativ mit 12 PCIe-Lanes an die CPU und diese Platte dann als Systemfestplatte.NVMe RAID nativ über die CPU ist auf X299 mit Festplatten, die nicht von Intel sind, aber nicht möglich, zumindest nicht als Systemfestplatte und nicht über VMD bzw VROC. Ich konnte das ganze mit zwei Intel-NVMe's mal testen, dafür braucht ihr KEINEN Key. Auch gibt es X299 Plattformen mit zwei M.2's mit PCIe über die PCH, dort kann man problemlos ein RAID über IRST machen (Mainstream-Gegenspieler zu VMD).VROC bzw. VMD ist zudem deutlich langsamer im Vergleich zu deaktiviertem VMD und über das Windows im Software-RAID (worüber man aber nicht booten kann). Es ist einfach nur enttäuschen was Intel beschlossen hat. Das Schlimmste ist, dass man mit der VROC-Software bzw. Treiber von Intel auf Windowsebene ein RAID erstellen kann mit 90 Tagen Testzeit über VMD!, sobald der Key eingesteckt ist kommt die Fehlermeldung, dass die NVMe's nicht mehr kompatibel sind. Es funktioniert auch nicht mit dem Premium-Key. Den Sinn bzw. die Absicht dahinter muss man nicht verstehen? Sobald der Key gezogen ist, sind diese wieder kompatibel, aber die Testzeit läuft weiter ab und es lässt sich nicht im BIOS nutzen.
Hans Wurst
Reviewed in Germany on April 11, 2022
Ausgepackt, eingesteckt und los geht's.
Alberto R.
Reviewed in Spain on December 9, 2021
Tengo una placa x299 y 4x970EvoPlus. Compré esta clave porque vi en algún comentario que le había funcionado con los mismos SSD, pero a mí no me ha funcionado en absoluto. La BIOS me reconoce la clave y los SSD, pero aún así los sigue marcando como "non raidable". Es vergonzoso y una cochinada por parte de intel hacerte pagar para poder hacer RAID con SSD de terceros y que encima no funcione. Si quieres RAID, a pasar por su marca por narices. Pues lo tienen claro.
Edmund Kwan
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021
Good and Fast
Luigi Crema
Reviewed in Italy on May 28, 2020
con una asus x299 gaming 2 e i9 10900x non funziona neanche accendendo i ceri in chiesa, poi cosa dire ...la Yeppon Italia, anche se il prodotto non funziona, ti fa pagare le spese di spedizione, alla fine dei giochi sprecati 10€
ED
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2020
You pay top dollars for X99 motherboards, and the processors that go with it.Raid 0 is unsafe, as your data spins on 2 drives, if one die everything is gone. It might be great for someone who does not care for loss of data (when a drive goes bad).Intel provide you with SATA raid that allow you to use Raid 0, 1 or 10, and NVME on Raid 0 only.All the new fast drives are NVME. To use those drives in Raid 1 you must buy this key (kind of ripoff).There is another key that support Raid 5 as well, but I wold not take the chance to use raid 5 without a real controller, and raid battery attached to it.As Raid 1 it works. you need to define the raid in the BIOS, with no real tools to recover, There are several software drives, for windows, on intel site, some do not work.If you intend to USE NVME drives on x299 in Raid 1 you must buy this key
bitbob
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2020
Even though intel claimed compatibility for several specific ssds from other manufacturers they wouldn't work for me. You also get no support from Motherboard makers that claim to support it. So getting this to work correctly is a real crap shoot. Good luck.
New Times
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2020
So I built a server... which had 4 M.2 nvme sockets... wanted to create 2 RAID sets. Realized I needed the Intel VROC plugin chip. So I purchased this one here and all went well. I am running Samsung EVO 970's... and they were recognized no problem with the VROC setup. Configured 2 RAID 1 arrays with the VROC license adapter.Was dreading this because it looked like it might not be compatible with the Samsung 970s I bought.. but low and behold, it did work... so yay!!!
Aaron B.
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019
Ordered for use with a Dell Precision 5820. Works great. Allows RAID 0/1/10.
Raphael
Reviewed in France on October 21, 2019
le Vroc est l'art de faire extra-payer ce qui ailleurs fonctionne bien mieux avec des produits ou la concurrence joue ce rôle sain et profitable à tous, les vendeurs comme les acheteurs.
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