Hello Fernando, first of all, thank you for your amazing work. Now I have an odd problem, I have MSI H81M-E3 motherboard; so 4th gen Haswell, I wanted to use the Intel RST(e) v13.2.8.1002 drivers and I tried them, but I have an odd problem with these. For some reason, they force aggressive APM on all of my drives and parks the heads of my mechanical HDD, making it click often when making HDD-related operations and also, creating a delay because the HDD head unparks, then after a while, it parks. I can hear when the head goes to "rest", then I if open a game or file on the HDD, I can hear how it goes back to work. Since I am on a desktop, I don't want this and i have to use HDScan program at each boot to override the APM settings and stop my HDD from parking its heads, very annoying.

The issue is gone with the standard MS driver and the Intel RST(e) v12.9.4.1000 drivers, any of these don't have any aggressive APM, but for my motherboard drivers 13.2.8.1002 do and I want to use these since they seem to give better benchmarks. What can be done? Any help?

intel 100 series / c230 (PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A103&CC_0106) laptop/mobile
chipset driver version 10.1.1.38
RST version was 17.5.1.1021
intel has now released RST version 16.8.3.1003
driver date is the same
they are messing with something but i have no idea what :)

I wanna share my experience here, I have the Intel® CM238 but under device manager it will show series 100/c230 (Generic name), only one device will show CM238.



Intel RST is shown as Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller .. My chip is much stronger than 100 series, so don't consider my case as a reference.

I tried both drivers 18.3 and 17.9.4 for a while now on my system and I can say with certainty that both were stable and fast, no BSOD or any lag.

Somehow I found both 17.9.4 and 18.3 faster than older drivers, when I say faster I mean response time. Now when I start calculating hash it will jump immediately to 8.1GB/min,. in previous drivers it will start slowly (2 seconds) from 7GB/min toward 7.9 and maybe 8.0GB/min, so yeah I have noticed a difference. Test using the HDD not the SSD, and it is much faster on the SSD (raid 0 configuration)

I am even considering now trying the new ROM/EFI 18 if it will work on my chip.

EDIT: I think there is a problem with the human check. Now I did all the image correctly but they will keep telling me try again, I did it like 10 times, I usually do it 1 or 2 times at most.

SetupRST 16.8.0.5
SetupRST 17.7.0.2

You are right,honest mistake
16.8.3.1003
and
17.7.0.1006

and a side note, v17.8.8.1072 is not compatible on my platform

@Fernando I wanna correct if anyone misunderstood, I was talking about the HDD not the SSD, and without raid configuration as shown in the picture.




Again I can say the both 18.3 and 17.9.4 were much faster than the previous drivers, and again my chip is CM238 which is much stronger than 100 series and can handle more Sata ports and raid, so although the device manager show 100seriese as a generic name but mine is not 100 series

Please look at the picture for more detail (I chose the strongest desktop 100 series and not a weak mobile 100 series and still mine can handle more ports )

For the full comparison table here is the link https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/...Ids=98087,90591

18.0.4.1146
(iaStorVD.cat)

I think it is Xeon specific only (and starting whit Skylake).