Hi All,

I have the following motherboard : Asus P6X58D Premium running for years with an Core i7 920 and 12GB ram.
I have found this forum, and its great btw !

I'm planning to do an SSD RAID0 upgrade, and found the following topic already, where i have found an modded Bios rom for my board which has the following mods :
Intel RAID Option ROM with Trim Mod 10.1
Marvell Yukon PXE Build v6.60.2.3 (20080422) (Ethernet Option ROM) Latest i could find
Marvell Storage Controller v1.0.0.1038 Option ROM

Used topic post : Request for RAID OROM for Asus P6X58D Premium

I have flashed my board succesfully with the bios rom provide by lowjax, and i have made an test RAID with 2 and 3 SSD's.
I found that it was working correctly and running a CMD command in Windows 10 Pro shows me that Trim was enabled..

The only thing i wonder is what else do I need to install, to get maybay better performance with the RAID0 SSD's.
I was running for test the following SSD's :
Intel X25-M 80GB
OCZ Agility 3 60GB

I was getting about 550 Read and 180 Write,

and treeway raid0 configuration :
Intel X25-M 60GB
OCZ Agility 3 60GB
Kingston V300 60GB

about 650 Read and about 250 Write.


Do i need to replace the Intel driver that windows (10) puts default on the Intel RAID device, or what is recommended here ??
How does it work with intel RST Software and RAID Driver, do i need to replace it with those and which one is reccommended for my setup ??

hope someone here can help me out,

Thanks in advance,



p.s
sry for my bad English I'm from the Netherlands

Hi Fernando,

Thx for the fast response !

So i will make my own custom Windows 10 now, and slipstream the driver into it, and remove the default one.
After doding this, is there any RST Software that I can run, and install ?
Which one do you recommend for my system (ICH10R), running Windows 10 Pro X64 ??

Thanks in advance,

Hi Fernando,

Yesterday I have made my custom Windows 10 Pro, Gonna test it soon.
I Will use 64bit Intel RST AHCI/RAID Drivers & Software Set v11.2.0.1006 WHQL with it..

I was wondering how much performance improvements in general there is when, replacing the intel AHCI/RAID Driver from Windows..
Is it generally like 10 or 20% ??

Hi Ferando,

Thx for the link to that thread.
I have vieuwed the difference between the drivers, and noticed speed improvements.

I currently am running my final RAID0 configuration (2X Intel 330 180GB) on my PC.
I have got version 11.2.0.1006 running as my RAID driver controller

But have a small question and problem with RST Software.
I cant get the RST Software starting, when i want to open the Rapid Storage software it keeps saying trying to connect to service.. (and wont go any further)
please see some screenshots I've posted..

I have installed the following RST version : Intel RST AHCI/RAID Drivers & Software Set v11.2.0.1006 WHQL




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Hi,

thx for the fast replay ! :)
I have indeed checked and installed .net 3.5 before installing RST.
Right now I have uninstalled it, and will try a new clean fresh install.

Btw here are my current benchmark speeds, Why is Anvil Benchmark tool much slower, than Atto disk benchmark ??
Please see the screenshots..

hmm, maybay because i use 512MB size in Atto ??, and are these speeds accepteable for my chipset you think ??
I gess i will never get higher speeds than Sata 600 right ??, my ICH10R has sata 300, and now i'm combining two sata ports with my RAID0..






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aah ok I see,

thanks for the info, nice to know..

My RST is now working, I have enabled Cache write back, and got some new results
Is it btw reccomended to enable Write Cache back, ro do you reccomend some other settings.. ? (will check the topic also again)

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Hi Fernando,

Thanks again.

I think my settings are all good now..
Ive enabled write cach back, I have checked 4KB block size and installed Intel SSD Toolbox.
Also dissabled Defragmentation and other Windows optimalisations as shown in that thread..

When i was optimising in RST, I dont have the Performance Option but I guess this is normal for my system ?

So I can now just uninstall Intel RST Software, and settings will be permantent. ??
(if i ever want to change, I just have to install RST again.. ?)

Thanks again,



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My Speeds are already a little better, after some tweaking from you thread :)

Thanks in advance,


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I've got some stranger problems since yesterday

Windows 10 was getting slow, and instable.. :S

My RAID0 Array also failed, I've checked the smart status of my ssd's they are both fine..
I've just created an new RAID0 array 128KB Stripe and starting a new Windows 10 Pro installation..

Is this a know problem ? are there bugs known here ??

Hope to hear from you, thanks in advance,