Windows 10 & Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) with Sandy Bridge-Ivy Bridge hardware.

[nvisible75]

Hello,

I am hoping to avoid a, 'Max Headroom Risk Management scenario' with the benefit of this forum's knowledgeable, advice.
With the advent of Intel, 'Optane' Era Rapid Storage Technology Intel (OERST) , I find contemporary versions of Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) do not work with legacy hardware (...read, Intel Z68 chipset) and Windows 10. I use an ASUS P8 Z68- Deluxe mainboard that drives info, just fine as a file server on Hybrid Drive technology (SSHD).
Would like to request advice into leveraging the SSHD technology with the Sandy Bridge Era Intel RST (SBERST) as it appears I would have to jump through a bunch of Windows 10, 'hoops'.

Namely...
1. Create Win 10 restore image,
2. Correct BIOS to RAID setting from AHCI, institute RST in BIOS and attach SSHD(s).
3. Boot from win 10 reset disks, to reinstall Win 10 to SSHD.

This seems like, 'an-awful-lot-o-risky-tinkering' to provisionally 'harvest' (SBERST ) for compatible SSHDs.
The question(s) I would like answered (please) are:
1.At what point is the SBERST a hardware solution? Will I pick up any performance hardware linkage at all if, steps 1-3 are successfully initiated and do you opine as if SBERST handshakes with the SSHDs?
2. What impact does the 32 nm vs 22 nm die process ( Sandy Bridge vs Ivy Bridge ) have on the implementation of, the realizable logic of Intel Rapid Storage Technology? I mean, is there a point of reference that cites how Intel RST, 'software like RAID' facilities has and will change with die process?

Thanks in advance for your advice and assistance.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you please explain in a bit simpler terms, what you're trying to achieve?

If you're aiming for Optane technology, then it's supported only on kabylake systems with intel 200 series chipset motherboards.

 

[nvisible75]

This is an exercise in completion of understanding the implementation of Intel Rapid Storage Technology and applying it to a legacy system They say that RST is a, 'Software RAID' solution and yet the BIOS is used to complete initialization of the (in this case) hybrid SSHD drives. It makes sense that the kabylake 'Optane' version of Intel RST differs from the sandybridge version of Intel RST. I would like to know at what level does windows 10 engage RST SSD and SSHDs and should I simply be satisfied with Z68 mainboard performance with out RST initialized. Or, is there still a contemporary means to utilize sandybridge RST in contemporary, windows 10 environment? Thanks.

 

[nvisible75]

When installing RST drivers, on a the sandybridge, Z68 platform, the following error message occurs
" This installation has ended prematurely due to the following erro: This platform is not supported."
Thanks.

 

[SkyNetRising]

You're trying to install RST driver version unsupported by your motherboard chipset.
You can use 12.x.x.x driver version. Later versions are incompatible with your motherboard.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23496/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-

 

[nvisible75]

You're trying to install RST driver version unsupported by your motherboard chipset.
You can use 12.x.x.x driver version. Later versions are incompatible with your motherboard.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23496/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-

 

[nvisible75]

You are right! Let me get back with you on this. The IRST Version: 12.9.0.1001 iterates on Z 68. It is too early to talk about how it works...I have some housekeeping to do on that platform. That is to say, IRST ver 12, forms a menu but,it folds up when it is the menu is polled for results for processing. Let me go through a win 10 update cycle and get back with you. This should be interesting. Thanks.

 

[nvisible75]

What the hell. Windows 10 drops all pointing devices on the update cycle. Have not gotten to checking IRST. So much for 'plinking around' with IRST and the embedded 8 Gig SSD in my Seagate SSHD. Does Tom's venture an opinion as to the, 'efficacy' of fiddling around with 5 year old technology and expecting linear results. In particular, how do i keep my data on the SSHD and setup IRST (v12) with the Z68 chipset BIOS. Thanks in advance.

 

[nvisible75]

Feeling a little, sheepish... the conservation of difficulties!
What I took to be drive symptoms was in fact a pinched cord on the pointing device.
So, no more worrying about SSHD configurations, all of the bizarre, flaky, seeming erratic SSHD behavior was a bad track ball cable.
On a different note, IRST (ver. 12) is not compatible with Windows 10, ver 1703. The IRST menu iterates but, fails with a subsumption for current drivers.
Thanks. Cheers!