Raid0 and TRIM Support on Intel 11.5 OROM and Latest v11.5.0.1184 RST Drivers ?

[Dazog]

Well the Z77 and Z68 are not different for the Intel Raid Controller. So Unless Intel adds Device ID blocks in a Rom or driver Z68 should work just fine?

[m.oreilly]

that's what i'm wondering, a block

[B Gates]

fill test with Vantage that provides concrete proof

[B Gates]

Intel says its not supposed to work they didnt say it will not.

[m.oreilly]

oh, so hope for my poor C600? we need more intel intel!

[Dazog]

Can someone explain what I Should be running in vantage and be looking for? So I do this right. I never used vantage before.

[B Gates]

Can someone explain what I Should be running in vantage and be looking for? So I do this right. I never used vantage before.

first run a Vantage HDD test with an empty array then record the score. then You will need a 30gb block of data composed of various data like movies, music, games, iso's etc. then copy and paste data onto the array as many times as necessary to fill the array 25% then run Vantage hdd test and record the score. then fill the drive to 50% run Vantage hdd test and record the score. then fill the drive to 75% full run Vantage hdd test and record the score. Then DELETE the data and run Vantage hdd test one last time. If the score goes back to or very, very close ( like within 2000 points) what it was with the clean run then TRIM is working of it goes back up slightly or stays the same then TRIM is not working. you will need to run advanced version to do HDD test so if you need to use my serial number let me know. also no restarting and run tests quickly one after another.

[Dazog]

first run a Vantage HDD test with an empty array then record the score. then You will need a 30gb block of data composed of various data like movies, music, games, iso's etc. then copy and paste data onto the array as many times as necessary to fill the array 25% then run Vantage hdd test and record the score. then fill the drive to 50% run Vantage hdd test and record the score. then fill the drive to 75% full run Vantage hdd test and record the score. Then DELETE the data and run Vantage hdd test one last time. If the score goes back to or very, very close ( like within 2000 points) what it was with the clean run then TRIM is working of it goes back up slightly or stays the same then TRIM is not working. you will need to run advanced version to do HDD test so if you need to use my serial number let me know. also no restarting and run tests quickly one after another.

Ah I guess I wont be doing this soon. I have my drives at 25% empty and don't plan to clean install for a few weeks. Thanks for the info on how to do this. I assume someone else will beat me to the test for z68.

[Fernando]

Well the Z77 and Z68 are not different for the Intel Raid Controller.

I am not sure regarding this point, but maybe we will find it out by comparing the details of both RAID Controllers.
The tool RWEverywhere is able to look into the depth of the Controllers.
>Here< I have published today the RWEverything tool details about my Z77 RAID Controller, which definitively supports the TRIM command.
So anyone with a 6-series RAID Controller may run the RWEverywhere tool and compare the details with those of the Z77 RAID Controller. I bet, that there are differences.

[B Gates]

It needs to be run as secondary storage not "C"

[Dazog]

I am not sure regarding this point, but maybe we will find it out by comparing the details of both RAID Controllers.
The tool RWEverywhere is able to look into the depth of the Controllers.
>Here< I have published today the RWEverything tool details about my Z77 RAID Controller, which definitively supports the TRIM command.
So anyone with a 6-series RAID Controller may run the RWEverywhere tool and compare the details with those of the Z77 RAID Controller. I bet, that there are differences.

Mine looks identical for my Z68, other than it being stored differently in the bios since I have a different board. Everything else matches.

[hoodlikegaza]

I tried replacing the option rom in my bios for my DFI t3eh8 (x58), and it doesn't work. I've tried it before, but since there's trim support for raid 0, I wanted to try again.


It doesn't brick the mb, but the option rom does nothing. The odd thing is, when it posts, it shows that it's still trying to use the old 8.xx option rom, throwing an error, then continues to attempt to boot after showing the acpi table (from other sources cdrom,usb, etc). This is exactly the problem I was getting when I tried to do this mod a year or so ago.

It also appears that the updated option rom is at least twice the size than the option rom in the bios.

Can anyone that is more knowledgeable than me help me figure this out? I think it's really dumb dfi disappeared in 2010, and never bothered thinking people needed 2TB + support....


Uploaded is my current bios and the option rom already extracted. It's an award bios.

Note* I have added a slic table to this rom for my own purposes.
http://depositfiles.com/files/t4rn2y10a

[Zaxx]

Hoping Intel just decided to do the Z77 first with the Z68 to follow...but unless I see screenshots of a Z68 Vantage fill test to confirm, looks like I'll be upgrading my mobo.

/me goes browsing NewEgg...

[m.oreilly]

that asus mVG looks neat...

[radier]

SSD RAID 0 TRIM Confirmed - Dreams Do Come True


http://www.rwlabs.com/article.php?id=672

[B Gates]

i got CDI passthrough on my x79...

Will Anvil's TRIM your array?

[Fernando]

Ah I guess I wont be doing this soon. I have my drives at 25% empty and don't plan to clean install for a few weeks. Thanks for the info on how to do this. I assume someone else will beat me to the test for z68.

Why don't you just do the simple Hex Editor test according >this< post? This will not stress your SSDs at all.

Mine looks identical for my Z68, other than it being stored differently in the bios since I have a different board. Everything else matches.

Here are the differences between the Intel Z77 and Z68 SATA RAID Controllers shown within the RWEverything tool summary:

1. Revision ID:
   Z77: 0x04
   Z68: 0x05
2. Subsystem ID:
   Z77: 0x84CA1043
   Z68: 0x844D1043

[piquadrat]

Is there a way to substitute these strings?

[bluestang]

i got CDI passthrough on my x79...

I get CDI passthrough as well on my P45 system with the 1207 driver. No updated OROM yet (still on 10.1.0.1008).

[Fernando]

I get CDI passthrough as well on my P45 system with the 1207 driver. No updated OROM yet (still on 10.1.0.1008).

What do you think is the "passthrough" verification by the tool CrystalDiskInfo?

[bluestang]

I get CDI passthrough as well on my P45 system with the 1207 driver. No updated OROM yet (still on 10.1.0.1008).

Just flashed my P45 with a modded BIOS with OROM 11.5.0.1582. Using driver 11.5.2.1001 on Win7 x64. No hang ups on OS load or anything.

What do you think is the "passthrough" verification by the tool CrystalDiskInfo?

I can view disks in RAID individually, could not do before.

Have not tried the Vantage test on any RAID SSD config, and probably can't for another week or so (I can't empty them out quite yet), but at least the OROM and drivers took on this chipset.

[canthearu]

Crystaldiskinfo added the ability to inspect individual drives in Intel raid arrays at about 4.6 or so. Been around for ages.

[Fernando]

Crystaldiskinfo added the ability to inspect individual drives in Intel raid arrays...

and this CDI "Passthrough" has nothing to do with TRIM.

[m.oreilly]

hehe, this could be it. i never used it until now, because i always run an array. lol

[m.oreilly]

and this CDI "Passthrough" has nothing to do with TRIM.

no, but it goes to show that gaining access to individual members (in an array) is not as dramatic as may once have been thought, though this is fakeraid.