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

[alan1476]

As long as you are running your SATA drives in AHCI mode, I would stick with the generic MS AHCI driver.
As an alternative you may try the 64bit Intel RST driver v11.2.0.1006, which I have modified for being usable even with X79 Chipset systems. You can find it here: http://www.win-lite.de/wbb/board195-...-raid-treiber/. Remember: You have to force the installation by using the "Have Disk" button.

Well I forced the drivers you gave me and the only thing it did was change the name of the drive in the Device Manager from Samsung 840 to just plain old " Disk" it however had no other consequences, it could be I didnt do it right. Still using MSACHI, and its write capping the drive, not to the extent where its not fast, but using Anvils Benchmark, it went from a 5300 to a 4300. All the 4K write score were way low. This happened after a clean install of Windows 7 64bit, it was great before I ran the Windows accessment and horrid after the accessment, very wierd.

[Fernando]

Well I forced the drivers you gave me and the only thing it did was change the name of the drive in the Device Manager from Samsung 840 to just plain old " Disk" it however had no other consequences, it could be I didnt do it right.

After having installed the Intel RST driver v11.2.0.1006, did you check the driver of the Intel SATA AHCI Controller? Only this way you are able to verify, that the driver update has been successful.

[alan1476]

After having installed the Intel RST driver v11.2.0.1006, did you check the driver of the Intel SATA AHCI Controller? Only this way you are able to verify, that the driver update has been successful.

Nope, but I am on it now, thanks again.

[Fernando]

Nope, but I am on it now, thanks again.

And what is your impression regarding this Intel RST driver compared with Microsoft's generic AHCI driver?

[alan1476]

And what is your impression regarding this Intel RST driver compared with Microsoft's generic AHCI driver?

All I can say is that you should be paid by Intel for fixing the stuff they should be fixing. Thankyou Fernando, you are a gerntleman.