I am looking for the best AHCI drivers for a Series 8 / C220 / Xeon-D broadwell system.

Supermicro offer intel drivers rste 5.0.0.2192 from 2015 (for a Server 2016 system). The drivers themselves are probably a couple of years older. Is there anything more recent, or should I just stick with the Microsoft default?

Hello! :) I have a SuperMicro X10SAE using the C600+/C220+ chipset with RSTe v4.3.0.1223 on Server 2012 STD x64. I'm trying to use MSP Backup and whenever the program touches the iastorA.sys driver, it completely blue screens the whole server and doesn't even allow it to auto restart. I'm hoping a newer version of this driver might have some form of a fix in it that stops this issue from happening. I see Intel isn't officially making newer RSTe drivers for this chipset but I found this post via google and wanted to know what would your advice be on this matter?

Thank you.

It's in raid doing a raid 1 and raid 10.

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2826&SUBSYS_080515D9&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2826&SUBSYS_080515D9
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2826&CC_010400
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2826&CC_0104

Is there a process I can go through to change to regular rst?

Ah ok. I've tried both of those drivers and this software "MSP Backup" by Solarwinds and Iaso still locks up the entire machine requiring a power off and on. Any idea if there is something that can be tweaked to fix this with the driver? Some setting maybe?

They are at a loss and have no idea what to do. Even their devs.

Also as a little background I know 100% it's the Intel rste causing this issue. I had another identical server last year that did this. The client ended up installing a lsi raid controller and moving everything over to that and the problem completely went away.

Sadly I may have to stick to shadow protect if I can't find a solution. Since we discovered this issue last year we have completely stopped using Intel raid in our builds. Among other issues we had with Intel raid and it's lack of reliability.

I'm going to try to... speed up my 7 years old i860 PC by transferring the OS (Win10 Pro x64) to a Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD.

Reading some posts in this useful forum I learned that, considering the age of the motherboard, I had better connect the SSD to (the first) one of the "standard" Intel SATA II ports, leaving the Marvell SATA III ports alone, as the actual performance difference would be meaningless.

I also learned, if I'm not mistaken, that the Intel RST (AHCI) driver installed will have a major role in influencing the performance gain I will be able to get.

The current driver is rel. 12.9.0.1001, which I installed (in place of the standard ms ahci driver) primarily to stop getting my hard drive partitions listed by Windows as removable USB drives.

So my questions are:
- will this driver significantly prevent my new SSD to perform at it's best (within the board's capabilities)?
- supposing the first answer is "yes", which driver release should I install to get the best possible result?

Finally, a much less technical one:
do you sincerely think this idea of buying a SSD to speed up things will prove good, or is my board too old to let the SSD produce some substantial, solid difference? :]

Thanks for your kind and quick answer.

My Southbridge is P55, so your table suggests "Intel RST(e) v11.7.4.1001 or Intel RST(e) v12.9.4.1000".

However, visiting Intel RST download pages, I found out that the "nearest" actually available drivers are 11.7.0.1013 and 12.9.0.1001, which is already installed on my system (with no instability or BSOD problems so far) and which, according to its readme.txt file on Intel's site, is the last driver which officially supports the "Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series SATA AHCI Controller" of my board.


What move do you suggest (I do not have any RAID needs, just want to get the most from my new SSD)?
What actual performing gains can I expect by substituting my current driver with the "best" one, anyway?

Finally, what about my last question in yesterday's post?