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Intel® Rapid Storage Technology

Guardsman
Guardsman Posts: 991 Forumite
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Intel® Rapid Storage Technology

Do I need it on Startup when I'm only using a single SSD drive ?
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  • RobTang
    RobTang Posts: 1,064 Forumite
    Nope you dont need it, is really for raid configs and you should really be running it AHCI mode anyway.


    If its already installed it *might* not actually be possible to uninstall drivers.
  • Guardsman
    Guardsman Posts: 991 Forumite
    It is in AHCI mode

    If not needed then I shall just uncheck it in MSCONFIG
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  • Guardsman
    Guardsman Posts: 991 Forumite
    Just double checking to make sure that I got AHCI set right. I have not used a SSD till this week.

    In BIOS I have SATA Mode Selection on AHCI. Is that all that needs to be done in BIOS?
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  • Richie-from-the-Boro
    Richie-from-the-Boro Posts: 6,945 Forumite
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    Guardsman wrote: »
    Just double checking to make sure that I got AHCI set right. I have not used a SSD till this week.

    In BIOS I have SATA Mode Selection on AHCI. Is that all that needs to be done in BIOS?

    If you're in Win7 and did a clean install of your O/S the standard Win7 driver should pick it up and work fine, clicking and running the 'O/S Optimisation Tab' in your Samsung SSD Magician should tell you [amongst many other things] if you are not in AHCi.
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  • Toxteth_OGrady
    Toxteth_OGrady Posts: 3,958 Forumite
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    RobTang wrote: »
    Nope you dont need it, is really for raid configs and you should really be running it AHCI mode anyway.

    If you have an SSD os disk, a 2nd conventional large data disk and a Z68 or Z77 mobo you can use the SRT feature of RST to reserve an 18GB partition on your SSD as a cache for the data disk - this massively improves read times for the data disk.

    It does need a re-install of Windows to configure though.
    604!
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