INTEL RST driver Windows 11

[mrkmcdn15c402eb]

Hey, I have a Z490 pro and want to view my RAID config and RAID status from windows 11 so I'm thinking of installing intel RST drivers. My raid is a raid 1 with two Samsung 860s, it IS NOT my windows install drive. It just a drive I store my home audio recording work on. It's been working great for a couple of years now but I'd like to see the RAID status from time to time without going into the bios. Is it safe to install the rst drivers? Thanks!

 

[Deleted member 1032038]

In the case of Intel, it is recommended to install it.

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[djaege151f02d2]

Hi, I'm new with MSI hardware, but I'd strongly suggest NOT to do that. I had some software on my last 2 Gigabyte systems which updated my RAID drivers to INTEL and the RAIDs got very, very slow. When I ran benchmarks, my drives were performing at the bottom of the performance list and took up to 2.5 days to fully recover from any BSODs, which were happening a lot more than I was happy with. It took me many months of searching and finally confirmation with the vendor to try to determine how my systems degraded so badly. The only offered resolution was to do a complete re-install of everything using vendor supported RAID drivers. I have literally have lost days of my life over the years doing nothing but waiting on incredibly slow disks and scans and recoveries over this. It's not a road I will ever want to head down again and it's the main reason why I decided to try a different motherboard manufacturer this time. It seems the same thing applies to MSI as to Gigabyte though, so I did not avoid the issue.

Regardless, Intel says this on their web site and I strongly encourage you to take their warning and my hard-learned lessons about RAID to heart and never use the intel drivers unless you are prepared to do a full re-build in order to recover from it.

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver Installation Software with Intel® Optane™ Memory (12th to 15th Gen Platforms)

The Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) Driver 20.2.6.1025.3 supports Windows 11, version 25H2.

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Note: Intel recommends that end users utilize driver updates provided by their system manufacturer/provider or via Windows* Update to eliminate the potential impact caused by loading non-customized drivers. System manufacturers regularly customize Intel generic drivers to meet the needs of their specific system design. In such cases, use of the Intel generic driver update is not recommended.

 

[citay]

I would not really use a RAID1, I'd rather use the second SSD in an external USB enclosure to do regular backups on, and store it safely away from the PC. This tends to be more helpful, because most cases of data loss don't happen because of drive failure, they happen because of user error, software problems / bugs, things like that. Then you want to have a backup, not a second drive in a RAID1 where each data loss would've been mirrored onto.