Should I install Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver?

[fireillusion]

Hello everyone.
I recently bought a new SSD (Samsung 840 EVO 250gb) as my OS and programs installation disk.
For file storage I use an old small in capacity velociraptor.
I installed Samsung Magician that has a lot of customization options.
Do I need to install Intel Rapid Storage Technology? Will there be any difference in performance and/or reliability? Please note that my M/B is quite old (Gigabyte P55A ud5).
Thanks in advance.

 

[Suztera]

Yes, it will boost Samsung SSD IOPS to their expected readings.
Your motherboard should support it.

 

[Palorim12]

The Intel RAPID storage program comes bundled together with the Intel SATA Controller AHCI and RAID driver. IF you don't want the program, Intel offers the drives themselves as a zip folder, you can just download that and point your SATA controller in Device Manager to use the Driver that you extract.

 

[The Original Ralph]

i'm not qualified enough to give you an authoritative answer, like moses on the mountain, but can tell you that i run both the intel Rapid storage option and Samsung Magician with Rapid mode enabled and tried dis-abling both, ie trying with only one or the other running, to see if one was interfering with the other. Response time on my computer (i7-4790 w/16Gb ram and samsung 840 evo ssd) seems faster with both running - i couldn't discern any interference between the two, from a user's perspective