the long waited INTEL RST V9.6.0.1014 is ready for download

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http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=&DwnldID=15251 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=&DwnldID=15251

here you go guys.

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yeah, via device manager. if you have the software package, uninstall any old one first is usually best.

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All you have to do is run the download and it does it all automatically--no need to uninstall anything, even with msahci.

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Just so I understand all this correctly (sorry, driver stuff is not my stong point!!) ...

I have an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard, which use the Intel X58 / ICH10R chipset, so this new driver should be fine for me? The original driver I downloaded from Asus and installed was the Intel Matrix Storage Manager v8.9.0.1023 - this new software replaces that but under a new name, yes?

I now plan to use a newly purchased Intel X25-M G2 SSD as my Windows 7 64-bit boot drive, and turn my exisitng two 512GB drives into a 1TB RAID-0 array. As I understand it, this new driver package should allow me to use TRIM on the SSD while still running two other hard drives as RAID-0.

Is there anything special I should set up in the BIOS, or elsewhere, to enable this? (I currently have SATA RAID disabled in the BIOS).

Thanks for the advice and the helpful thread,

Andre

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I also want to know this. I also run a RAID 0 array of 512 HDDs and have a single G2 80GB SSD as my OS drive. Are TRIM commands passed to the SSD with these new RST Drivers? If so how do I check for this?

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TRIM support in Windows 7* (in AHCI mode and in RAID mode for drives that are not part of a RAID volume)

http://www.intel.com//support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-022304.htm http://www.intel.com//support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-022304.htm