Regards to Intel RST Driver 17.7.0.1006 WHQL working with Intel RST EFI / SATA/RAID OROM 17.7.0.4404 very well.
Testing with ASUS RAMPAGE VI EXTREME modded BIOS with lastest RST EFI / SATA RAID OROM 17.7.0.4404
Working faster than 17.5.x.xxxx EFI/SATA/RAID OROM on X299 platform.

Run great on Microsoft Windows 10 # 2020 # Insider Preview Build 18990.1
Testing with Crystal Disk 6.02 x64 under Microsoft Windows 10 # 2020 # Insider Preview Build 18990.1 Very impressive.


EDIT by Fernando: NVMe Benchmark results directly attached and all other badly visible images removed (to save space)

RST 17.7.X.XXXX driver bring support Optane hybrid memory and next generation Intel NAND Flash QLC upto 144 layer as well. It also speedup the older models device , too.

Intel Optane Hybrid memory could be working on RAID mode like other NAND Flash. Hope you got my point.

Intel documents provided me that information. The 17.7 version was improved from 17.5 to support Optane caching mode available on intel H10 and beyond. If you looking at Intel H10 itself it was consisted 32GB Optane Memory module with 1TB QLC NAND same as 660p model.

On 17.5 version of EFI/RAID OROM was the initial version to support these hybrid optane memory models. However we can run the H10 stick SSD as other NVME on the market only.
But the caching machanism of Optane Memory (32GB or 16GB) may not running properly on some system.

So on 17.7 version Intel extended support more Hybrid Optane memory models and improved performance on caching mode better than 17.5 version.

You must pair 17.x EFI/RAID OROM with 17.x driver for optimal performance.

I didn’t use any SATA Device since 3 year ago.

Intel Optane in cache mode as well as the H10 optane+nand require RAID rom and bios/uefi set to RAID mode with m.2 port remapping enabled (sometimes called RST and System acceleration with Intel Optane technology). I'm unsure if Intel has an up to date video/guide but you can see here. (obviously ignore the data drive on the H10 because it's basically just two drives in one package kind of thing ) https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/...ane-memory.html

6.2.0.1034 RaidDriver & sSataDriver (>6.1.0.1017)

Hi all,

I posted a similar question about oproms, so I'll try not to duplicate info. Does anyone have positive experiences upgrading the EFI drivers on a C600/X79 system on the 3.8.x platform to 4.x - 4.3.x for SCU and 4.5.x for RAID.

I'm not upgrading these for fun - the past two windows 10 releases have not played nice with SCU enabled. I didn't even realize it was the SCU driver/hardware until 1903 came out, I thought it was problems with my video card. The screen just goes black and the system becomes non-responsive. The first time I saw this happen was right after a video driver upgrade, so I found a nice red herring there.

My initial results are positive. I was able to use the system yesterday without this behavior - it usually happens rather quickly after boot. I did find the machine in what may have been this state this morning, but that was waking up from sleep. I turned off sleep since I like to use remote desktop without dealing with WOL. So I will see if the system is stabler now over the next couple of weeks. I'm wondering about other people's experiences to make sure nobody encountered anything as severe as data corruption, for example.

Has anyone gone higher than 4.3.x SCU/4.5.x RAID? i think SCU EFI firmware goes up to 4.6 but I'd have to double check.

FYI, my motherboard is an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS.

Thanks!

-Josh