Ok so I have a problem trying to find a driver that will fix my issue. I have read that the RST drivers were pulled for X99 boards due to some issue. I am using a ASUS X99 Deluxe. This has left me in a bit of a pickle. I previously setup (probably with the old driver before it was pulled) A RAID 5 consisting of 3 2TB WD drives on the grey ports on the board with the drives on ports SATA6G_1 to SATA6G_3 and the 60GB SSD for caching on SATA6G_4. With the intel RST drivers I had previously I was able to setup the cache. The performance on the RAID 5 was always terrible, I only ever acheived speeds in the area of 30MB/s write and read was from memory about 150MB/s.

With the new install and the only drivers availible i can find the transfer speeds are woefull. In copying a file from the raid 5 to a ssd I get about 2-3 megabytes per second transfer speed. My internet is faster than this rubbish.

My question is can I do anything without the old pulled drivers to get any kind of decent performance back? or am i best hjust disabling the ssd cache from bios and going the newer drivers. I think currently windows 10 has installed is 15.44.10.10 and the driver availible from asus is 14.5.0.1081.

Any good ideas?

I have no idea what version the old driver was, that is my problem.

Well for one when I get the RST(e) software and drivers installed the secondary Controller that does the rst application and I have not found any driver that will enable me to turn on or off the ssd cache. Primarily that is what I want, a driver/rst that will give me back the ssd cache options on this hardware

Thankyou very much Fernando! I shall read the guide now.

The Hardware ID for the Intel Chipset SATA RAID Controller are as follows:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&SUBSYS_86001043&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&SUBSYS_86001043
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_010400
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104

If you can recommend the best driver I would be very appreciative.

Thanks again for your help :)

OK, thanks for the advice. I installed the latest 15.2 from your forum and now it is back in a bad state whereby the intel RST service will not run and i cannot open RST. The icon in the notification area constantly has a little blue waiting circle spinning above the hard disk icon. If i try to start the service manually i get an error code 1607: the process terminated unexpectedly.

Any thoughts?

Update: 14.8 does the same :(

the 13.1 and 13.2 are what I tried first off based on the information you posted there about X99 compatability. They both had the same problem.

(right now I am back on 14.8 and copying an 18.5GB file to a SSD has an estimated time remaining of 40 mins :( It really sucks))