What do you mean by "used natively"? I thought drivers are either made for specific hardware or not.

Hi Fernando,

I tested yesterday with my GA-X79UD3 on "Win7" and couldn't use the 13.2... drivers "not the right system to install" - so I tried to install the new 4.1.... drivers for C600 chipset.
Install worked fine, but after that the reboot, the boot stucked within the boot window (colored window logo) for minutes.
After a long time the repair mode from Win7 told me to repair windows, cause the boot process failed and windows needs to be repaired after installing a defective driver.

I did so and after successfully reboot I replaced the 4.1 drivers with the old 13.1..1058 drivers - and it worked.
A test with the old RST(e) drivers worked too but only with a write performance of 80MB/s with a Samsung830SSD.

Do you have an idea, what was wrong?

Kind regards :)

I might be overlooking the obvious, but how do I check my current RST(e) driver version? Device Manager doesn't seem to be any help.

Ah of course it's under controllers! Thank you. I've just upgraded to 12.9 after a BSOD connected to iaStorA.sys, and MSI Live Update still recommends 12.8, so I wanted to check.

Hello Fernando,

I need advice which of RST(e) Software and drivers is better for a MSI GE60-OND with Intel HM76 7-series chipset, using Win 8.1 Update 1
(also applied all other updates and 12th August updates).

As i have been asking you in other thread - about Intel management engine and interface - currently solved,
i wanted to know few details about more up-to-date IRST driver (or package) suitable for my MB.

My original IRST driver and software was 11.6.0.1030.
I uninstalled it both, before i went to BIOS or ME FW upgrade.

So i would like to ask you,
if is best to install the 12.8.13.xxxx or 12.9.4.xxxx version of that package - on 1st page of this thread.

Need i just the bare driver or also the software combo ?

Thanks in advance

Any information on this latest driver as to fixes and what is still pending?
I usually wait until drivers are up at Intel officially so I can read those just in case there are pending
issue with my OS/configuration.

Seems Intel is really slow to officially put them on site, usually a month or two behind.

Tried the latest [13.2.4.1000] on my z87 system and raid1 is horrible......
Intel states raid1 is equal to a single disk but not even close, about 25%.

single raptor

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 456.202 MB/s
Sequential Write : 179.288 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 453.702 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 318.098 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 1.305 MB/s [ 318.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 3.754 MB/s [ 916.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.869 MB/s [ 944.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 3.797 MB/s [ 927.0 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [C: 46.2% (215.3/465.7 GB)] (x9)
Date : 2014/05/30 16:21:21
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

raid1
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 117.365 MB/s
Sequential Write : 127.213 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 125.745 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 237.294 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 2.043 MB/s [ 498.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 2.628 MB/s [ 641.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 7.321 MB/s [ 1787.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.953 MB/s [ 721.0 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [C: 49.4% (230.2/465.7 GB)] (x4)
Date : 2014/09/07 4:19:53
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

I like the idea of raid1 but those numbers are horrible.

Tried 12.9, 13 and the latest 13.4.2.1000 with different read-only, write back, write though and not much changed, still slow.

Any ideas or is Intel just flat our liars about raid1 performance?

Just for fun my second raptor empty before I put it into the raid1 array


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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 488.196 MB/s
Sequential Write : 187.917 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 444.090 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 324.492 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 88.654 MB/s [ 21643.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 5.242 MB/s [ 1279.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 5.204 MB/s [ 1270.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 5.422 MB/s [ 1323.6 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [D: 0.0% (0.1/465.8 GB)] (x9)
Date : 2014/09/03 3:16:09
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

Now that's more like what a raptor can and should be doing bench wise.

True it's for redundancy but from all accounts it should be equal to a single drive. The only caveat is reads are faster but writes are slower but not 25% slower.
My old system with 500GB black drives took a slight hit but not to this degree.
I was hoping for at least close to a single raptor but frankly those numbers are pathetic.