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Re: ASMedia SATA_3 port causes IRST to stop responding - Solved
Good, and 12.5 TRIM is fine, given trimcheck, which is the only program I've ever seen that can test TRIM, short of examining a SSD's contents with a hex editing tool. TRIM for standard, single SSDs is much simpler to implement, and if a SATA driver could not deal with standard TRIM today (some older drivers could not), that would really be a bug.
But I can say that trimcheck found TRIM for SSDs in RAID 0 did not work, IRST 12.5, just as some have said. That RAID 0 volume is (was) my Windows 8 OS drive on my ASR Z87 board. Not very old, about a month, mostly free space and performed well.
I used 12.6 when I first built my Haswell PC, with a RAID 0 volume of SSDs. After three corruptions and reinstalls of Windows, I gave up on 12.6 and tried 12.5. Not one glitch since then with 12.5. That was the first time I've ever had trouble with a RAID volume of SSDs, I have one as an OS volume that is over a year old, no TRIM ever, still works fine. Intel no longer provides IRST 12.6 on their download pages, not for their own mother boards, or as a generic IRST driver.
IRST 11.5 also had problems with RAID volumes, and became no longer available. That is why I'm not a fan of the IRST drivers you can find at StationDrivers, that somehow gets beta versions of IRST. Some people jump all over them as soon as they are available, since apparently new is always better and improved. But as we have seen, new is not always better and improved. Zuhl and others prefer IRST 11.2 for it's performance. TRIM in RAID 0 that has worked in the past, doesn't with at least some of the IRST 12 drivers. Given that officially released IRST drivers have issues, what are the chances the beta versions are free from issues?
Actually, I'm using 12.6 with single SSDs as the OS drive, and it works fine, very fast at booting, which others have noticed.
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But I can say that trimcheck found TRIM for SSDs in RAID 0 did not work, IRST 12.5, just as some have said. That RAID 0 volume is (was) my Windows 8 OS drive on my ASR Z87 board. Not very old, about a month, mostly free space and performed well.
I used 12.6 when I first built my Haswell PC, with a RAID 0 volume of SSDs. After three corruptions and reinstalls of Windows, I gave up on 12.6 and tried 12.5. Not one glitch since then with 12.5. That was the first time I've ever had trouble with a RAID volume of SSDs, I have one as an OS volume that is over a year old, no TRIM ever, still works fine. Intel no longer provides IRST 12.6 on their download pages, not for their own mother boards, or as a generic IRST driver.
IRST 11.5 also had problems with RAID volumes, and became no longer available. That is why I'm not a fan of the IRST drivers you can find at StationDrivers, that somehow gets beta versions of IRST. Some people jump all over them as soon as they are available, since apparently new is always better and improved. But as we have seen, new is not always better and improved. Zuhl and others prefer IRST 11.2 for it's performance. TRIM in RAID 0 that has worked in the past, doesn't with at least some of the IRST 12 drivers. Given that officially released IRST drivers have issues, what are the chances the beta versions are free from issues?
Actually, I'm using 12.6 with single SSDs as the OS drive, and it works fine, very fast at booting, which others have noticed.
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