Hello,

I finally purchased a Samsung 840 SSD for my comp but after doing a little research, I now have some concerns. I have a sabertooth x58 mb and I want to put my SSD on the ICH10R Sata2 port. I have 2 samsung HDs in Win7 software raid 1, DVDR, and Hitachi HD also on the ICH10R. Because of all the bad reviews I chose to disable the Marvell Sata 3 controller.

Here are my concerns. Before I install my SSD I would like to update my ICH10R driver to get the best performance. After reading your posts, I'm confused if I should be using the v11.7 or the v12.9 irst drivers. Is the x58 considered a 5 series sata controller? Will any of these irst drivers support the trim feature of my SSD?

I'm also reading a lot of posts here about OROMs. Do I need to update that as well?

Please excuse my ignorance.

Thanks

Thank you thank you very much. This forum is awesome thanks for all your hard work. Forgot to mention, yes, i am running AHCI mode. Using windows for my raid.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #200

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Update of the Start Post:

Changelog:

• new: 32/64bit Intel RST(e) drivers v13.0.0.1072 Beta (dated 11/01/2013, usable only with Intel Chipsets from 5-Series up, suitable for Win7and Win8/8.1)
• new: Intel RST(e) Drivers & Software Set v13.0.0.1072 Beta (dated 11/14/2013, usable only with Intel Chisets from 5-Series up, suitable for Win7 and Win8/8.1)

Have fun with the new Intel RSTe drivers!
Fernando

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While doing some searching for the best drivers for my motherboard, I found these drivers. RST_11.6.0.1030_RAID_AHCI_driver_GUI_CLI_2012.10.11. I don't see them listed here and I was wondering if you had some info on them. Would they work better for my Sabertooth x58 mb?

WIN7x64 AHCI mode. I'm not sure if it would be better but last time you recommended either 11.2 or 11.7. What is the difference between these two?

Again sorry for my ignorance, but what is a SCSI filter driver? Do I need it for SATA controller? Does it provide any benefit for AHCI?

Hi Fernando,

I'm about to start installing my new Raid 0 with trim enabled on my p67 system using the especially P67 TRIM modded RST(e) RAID ROM 11.6.0.1702 and the Intel RAID drivers v11.7.4.1001 WHQL as you recommended me in another thread.
Last time i formatted my computer, I had to pre-install (using the f6 method) the IRST drivers while windows installation because i was using AHCI mode and everything went well.
But now with the Intel RAID drivers I downloaded from your IRST download thread there's no AsMakeDisk application to create the disk required for pre-installation so I'm wondering what I should do.
When I looked at the readme it tells me which files I need to copy on the disk, but I can't find the TXTSETUP.OEM that i'm supposed to include on the disk.
Please let me know what I should do.

Thank you very much.

Alex

Thanks alot for your incredibly fast answer, I will be installing windows 7 so I will just copy every file except TXTSETUP.OEM on the disk I will be using when reinstalling windows.
I have a few other quick questions if you dont mind:

1) Is it possible to set up 2x raid 0 arrays (one for data composed of 2x caviar black 640gb and the boot one 2x mushkin chronos deluxe 240gb) considering I'm using a p8p67 pro motherboard
2) If yes, what should be their stripe size ?

Thanks