AMD’s latest RAID driver gets support for Windows 11 24H2 and other new features. It also fixes a blue screen of death (BSOD).
A few days ago, AMD released a new RAID driver, version 9.3.3.00117, for Windows 11 and 10, via a new RAID installer software package version 6.10.09.200. The new RAID driver adds support for Windows 11 version 24H2. The driver now also supports HMB (Host Memory Buffer) which means HMB will work when RAID is enabled on NVMe SSDs.
For those who may not be familiar, many SSDs come with a dedicated DRAM chip that acts as a buffer (cache) for metadata between the controller and the NAND flash memory. The presence of this DRAM cache improves write caching and generally reduces random access times. Those NVME SSDs that do not have the DRAM cache typically support the HMB technology which helps the controller access system memory via Direct Memory Access (DMA).
Meanwhile, RAID or Redundant Array of Independent Disks is a technology that allows users to combine multiple, typically inexpensive, disks such that data redundancy can be created to prevent data loss and/or improve performance.
