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NoxTek
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We've been talking about this in a really old RST thread here, but I figured this driver deserves it's own thread.
Last week a new set of Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) drivers were posted on station-drivers and they seem really ... REALLY good. Coming in at version 10.0.0.1043, these drivers look to have come from Asus for use with their most recent 6 series based boards, but the drivers support all of the usual flavors of Intel storage chipsets.
They can be had here:
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel raid.htm
There are a few people at the XtremeSystems forums that have had some really shocking results, most notably a marked increase in write speeds in RAID0 arrays containing solid state drives. This has, in fact, led many people to speculate that the TRIM command may actually now be getting passed to drives in a RAID array with this driver.
Personally, I didn't see anything too shocking in terms of benchmarks (CrystalDisk and ATTO) on my rig, but if TRIM is indeed enabled in this driver it should take a few days to work. However, what was immediately noticeable was a substantial decrease in boot time.
My system consists of two 80GB Intel X25-M drives in RAID0 and the array is about a month old now. After installing the RST10 driver my boot time went from around 18 seconds (POST to desktop) to a repeatable 12 seconds. That is incredibly sweet. TRIM or not Intel have evidently done some major work in this new driver.
So I'm curious... is anyone else out there willing to be a guinea pig and test these drivers out on their rigs? Preferably on something like the following system:
For those brave souls I have provided the links above, the drivers work and don't appear to be the slightest bit flakey for my own rigs (both of them ICH10R). About the only caveat I can think of is that these DO NOT come with the RST/MSM console - this is a bare driver alone.
The new SSD Toolbox version 2.0 works perfectly with these drivers and is available from Intel's site.
Last week a new set of Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) drivers were posted on station-drivers and they seem really ... REALLY good. Coming in at version 10.0.0.1043, these drivers look to have come from Asus for use with their most recent 6 series based boards, but the drivers support all of the usual flavors of Intel storage chipsets.
They can be had here:
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel raid.htm
There are a few people at the XtremeSystems forums that have had some really shocking results, most notably a marked increase in write speeds in RAID0 arrays containing solid state drives. This has, in fact, led many people to speculate that the TRIM command may actually now be getting passed to drives in a RAID array with this driver.
Personally, I didn't see anything too shocking in terms of benchmarks (CrystalDisk and ATTO) on my rig, but if TRIM is indeed enabled in this driver it should take a few days to work. However, what was immediately noticeable was a substantial decrease in boot time.
My system consists of two 80GB Intel X25-M drives in RAID0 and the array is about a month old now. After installing the RST10 driver my boot time went from around 18 seconds (POST to desktop) to a repeatable 12 seconds. That is incredibly sweet. TRIM or not Intel have evidently done some major work in this new driver.
So I'm curious... is anyone else out there willing to be a guinea pig and test these drivers out on their rigs? Preferably on something like the following system:
- A system consisting of two (or more) solid state drives in RAID0.
- A system that's had RAIDed SSDs for en extended period of time, the longer the better.
- A system where said RAID array is on an Intel chipset controller (ICH10R, ICH9R, etc)
For those brave souls I have provided the links above, the drivers work and don't appear to be the slightest bit flakey for my own rigs (both of them ICH10R). About the only caveat I can think of is that these DO NOT come with the RST/MSM console - this is a bare driver alone.
The new SSD Toolbox version 2.0 works perfectly with these drivers and is available from Intel's site.
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