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

[Fernando]

Very good job done by Fernando, Andres Sergio, Btester, Chispy, Medeirosdez, B. Gates and others.
I'm certain that unless these people had not made many tests to check and stirred the subject up on this and other forums, we wouldn't have had an Intel statement about this (not clear at all, but even though an official word).

You are 100% correct. As someone with inside knowledge I can ASSURE you that Intel's statement is a DIRECT result of this thread and would not have been made yet if this thread didn't exist.

If you are right, I suspect the reason why Intel would have prefered to remain silent:
They are afraid to get more criticism than acclamation for this new Intel RAID driver/OROM feature, because only users with a Z77 chipset mainboard get benefit of it. That is very bad news especially for users, who recently bought a very expensive X79 system for professional RAID usage and expected the best possible RAID support by Intel.
I believe, that the development of the X79 chipset and maybe even of the "Enterprise Edition" RST drivers was a big mistake. Windows 8 doesn't need and doesn't even use the SCSI filter driver iaStorF.sys.