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Hi, i like to clear it up about requirements for vroc bootable drive.. i have: ASUS x299 Mboard ASUS board.HYPER M.2 X16 PCI-E CARD VROC STANDARD key will be posible to make bootable drive using 2x samsung SM961 ?? Thank You..

Kgold1
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Esteban_C_Intel1
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Kgold1, Intel® VROC does support third party SSDs, the limitation is related to the Intel(R) X299 chipset on the motherboard mentioned. If you were using a different board with a different chipset the usage of third party SSDs would be available, there is a list of tested SSDs on that type of solution. This is the list, note this is not for your system but other boards that also support Intel(R) VROC: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000030310/memory-and-storage/ssd-software.html Yes, you will be able to use the Intel(R) SSDs as boot drives with the setup mentioned, and the RAID levels supported would be 0/1/5/10 to boot from. (Windows 10* is the OS supported) Regards, Esteban C Intel Customer Support Technician Under Contract to Intel Corporation

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Esteban_C_Intel1
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Hello Kgold1, Thank you for contacting the Intel Communities. Since the system has an Intel(R) x299 chipset the answer would be the following: No. Intel VROC on X299 platforms supports Intel® SSDs only. You may reference to this article about Intel® VROC and the x299 chipset: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000026106/memory-and-storage/ssd-software.html Thanks, Esteban C Intel Customer Support Technician Under Contract to Intel Corporation
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Thank you for response. That really disappointing that Intel have so limited compatibility. Will Intel drives will be bootable on setup i mention before? will vroc standard key will work on intel drives to create bootable RAID-0?

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Esteban_C_Intel1
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Kgold1, Intel® VROC does support third party SSDs, the limitation is related to the Intel(R) X299 chipset on the motherboard mentioned. If you were using a different board with a different chipset the usage of third party SSDs would be available, there is a list of tested SSDs on that type of solution. This is the list, note this is not for your system but other boards that also support Intel(R) VROC: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000030310/memory-and-storage/ssd-software.html Yes, you will be able to use the Intel(R) SSDs as boot drives with the setup mentioned, and the RAID levels supported would be 0/1/5/10 to boot from. (Windows 10* is the OS supported) Regards, Esteban C Intel Customer Support Technician Under Contract to Intel Corporation
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