Intel Rapid Storage & SSD

I just installed IRST 9.6.0.1014 for my asus a42jv29 which uses

Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller

as i read that i needed it for my Intel X25-M gen2 80GB SSD.

Now there's a Intel Rapid Storage Technology application in my start menu...which gives me a GUI with various functions when i open it. THere's also an IAStorIcon.exe and IAStorDataMgrSvc.exe inserted into my startup. Can I disable those without fear of TRIM support being taken away?

And if the IAStorIcon startup process is indeed necessary, is it ok for me to enable it on Asus FastBoot so that it loads later?

Thanks in advance!

 

AFAIK, you can remove those programs.

 

thanks for the reply!

So you're saying that TRIM will remain active even if I remove those processes? How about the Intel Rapid Storage SERVICE?

 

Trim will remain, the service is only needed for communication between the driver and the GUI.
Without deinstall you just can set the service inactive and delete the GUI from startup via msconfig or ccleaner or something else.
I would suggest to upgrade to IRST 10.0.0.1046.

 

dang...didn't know there's a newer version. Gonna try it right away...hope it's stable. And after that i'll remove the services and startup. thanks for the advice.

Side question...my firmware version is 2CV102HA. Would there be any obvious advantage in updating it to 02HD? Because i read that i need to burn into a cd which is quite troublesome...

 

You can burn onto a DVD, or re-writable CD/DVD if you wish. As for whether it's worth it or not, you can but I'm not sure if it will erase your HDD.

The release notes only state:

 

Thanks namaiki;

WIth regards to IRST 10.0.0.1046, i caught an alarming part of the readme notes:

1. The system must contain one of the Intel controllers listed in
section 1 above and one of the following processors:
- Intel(R) vPro
- Intel(R) Celeron
- Intel(R) Pentium

Whereas the official IRST 9 from intel site says

1. The system must contain an Intel(R) Core(TM), Intel(R) Core(TM)2,
Intel(R) Pentium(R), Intel(R) Xeon(R), Intel(R) Atom(TM),
or Intel(R) Celeron(TM) branded processor and one of the Intel
products listed in section 1 above.

 

I've been running IRST 10.0.0.1046 for a while now. I didn't really find it any better or worse.

Something interesting:
iaStor.sys (from IRST) is 428KB, msahci.sys (the generic Microsoft driver that comes with Windows) is 30KB. (assuming only the .sys file really matters)

 

I don't from where you downloaded. Mine is from intel drivers pour Raid/Sata/Ata/Ahci
and it contains the same statements as you found in IRST 9.

 

iaStor.sys contains also the support for RAID. It depends not on the size, but on the pathlength of the instructions.
Regarding the size of IRST 1046, it went down from 529KB(9.6.4.1002 and 9.6.5.1001) and 433KB(10.0.0.1043beta) to 428Kb for X64.
Another aspect is the logic and optimization of the code.

 

that;s impossible! I downloaded from the same link-
ICH7R/ICH8R/ICH9/ICH10/i5/i7
10.0.0.1046
Windows 200x/Xp/Vista/7 32/64bits

details of extractor
filename : intel_rst_10.0.0.1046-full( www.station-drivers.com).exe
CRC32: 752D1028
MD5: 90003ADE6EEF6CD93DD9121A6ECDF492
SHA1: 356F28F7130E31D19178B4F2E8B1A5054816E397

 

What Supremesabre wrote is what the readme inside the installer states.