New Intel Rapid Storage 10.1.0.1008 WHQL available

At website
intel drivers pour Raid/Sata/Ata/Ahci
a new version of Intel Rapid Storage is available.

 

Has anyone tried this ?

 

Tried it, works fine. Give about same performance, so don't know if anything was fixed in the background.

 

Same here. Don't know what the difference is to be honest performance wise, but it didn't break anything so it's cool. Also, the previous release didn't allow HWmonitor to read the HDD temp, but this version does. First release not directly from HP that can do that, so that's a big plus in my book. Got a brand new version + it can read my HDD temp, so win-win.

 

It also fixed my HDD temp reading problem with BatteryCare.

 

If it fixes the temp reading then I must try it

 

Uhmm, why would I be interested in these temperatures? If there's an application that can count the number of angels that could dance on my hard drive's read/write heads, given their size and current acceleration, would I need to install a driver that's compatible with this application?

 

It just seems to indicate that this driver is bugfixed hence there are some form of driver quality control.

 

silly rabbit.....

if that package were truly whql, it would be available from msft or from intel.

that station drivers says so is not assurance.

people who download os components from anyplace other than the os maker or hardware makers web site are asking for trouble.

there are at least three low-volume/minor manufacturers of laptops that are distributing intel rst v10. better to find those places than grab a package from a site that is known to edit and modify hosted files.

also consider that since the package is not yet available directly form intel that it might not have fully passed QA testing or be restricted to some very specific hardware configs that have passed testing.

 

Some people just can't comprehend certificate signing.
The non-whql (self signed) drivers will prompt a warning.
Unless the driver signing certificate for Microsoft Hardware partner (Like Realtek did) was leaked or a vulnerability to bypass the unsigned driver warning was discovered it is safe.
Intel DON'T Provide direct consistent always updated support for everything.

 

I'd always agree on this...

I prefer waiting for such driver releases from the manufacturer' themself.. and for example, if a place like Intel, which has an exhaustive download center, hasn't put it up for public download, then there must be a reason for it.. and I'd rather wait to grab it from there or msft..

 

Exactly my concern. Intel is extremely conservative when it comes to crucial low-level drivers. I agree with that attitude. I am not going to futz around with drivers for my storage subsystems just for the "fun" of it.

 

There are lots of drivers that are never published because they would have to offer support for said drivers. If your system doesn't have a known driver by customer service and you call up the first thing they'll say to you is to upgrade/downgrade to a known good one.The driver itself has been tested by Microsoft, that's where it gets it's WHQL certificate from. Intel wont be sending "crap" drivers to Microsoft to test and Microsoft wouldn't sign it unless it's been put thru all the past tests that previous (publically available) drivers were put through. Intel however probably feels it doesn't offer enough difference to warrant releasing it. The one before was also WHQL'd but still not publically released by Intel. You know what configuration madness that is to have every single version in a system to troubleshoot?

 

it is trivially easy to forge a whql certificate (msft admits this readily) and most people have no idea how to verify one in any case.

depending cert signing of a driver package is only ONE of several steps to verify a legit release.

the download source is just as important as verifying the correctness of a certificate (and NOT just accepting error or outdated messages).

that the so-called 'whql' release is NOT itself downloadable from msft or intel nor are pointers to it available at msft or intel is significant.

 

^ This..

And this is not the first time, a discussion has gone along these lines..

There was another thread before here @ NBR, with same issue, same topic... anyway, I'd rather wait for official releases (@ shotta35). Thanks.

 

Yes, there was much discussion and in the end everyone grabbed the 10.0.0.1046 version of IRST which is still not avalable from Intel or Microsoft.
I have the new ones and they work great.

 

places like manufacturers website are very slow at updating there drivers

 

How about doing a Demo?
StuxNet got through because of a stolen Realtek cert. I haven't heard of any other cases.

Even the ingenious StuxNet Creators (Probably gov sponsored) couldn't bypass driver signing and had to resort to certs stealing...
I suggest that you go read up on RSA encryption schemes before assuming anything. Don't throw real life analogies into computing.

 

That's what i thought, RSA is 1024bit encription right? I'm seriously wondering how can anyone "hack" that or whatever.

 

This is now up on Intel.com

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19607&ProdId=2101&lang=eng

 

Thanks. But is there any advantage for non-RAID users?

 

Hi all,
I've encoutered in issue with BSOD on Windows 7 ultimate 64bit, on my Asus P6T deluxe with 2 Hitachi 1Tbytes in RAID 1, with this new intel driver release after install...
Also installing the previous driver V.10.0.0.1046 the problem is not solved and I had to format the OS to resume normal operations!

 

Can anybody what exactly does Intel Rapid driver do I had it on all my previous machines and this one and I always benchmarked my harddrives with and without it with same results and all the other functions like AAM and such are working with and without it .... but please in simple terms cuz I googled it and couldn't understand anything

 

O.k., I updated now that the driver is official. What do you know, my M6400 now boots in 35 seconds from its RAID0 array. My boot times fluctuate quite a bit, depending on all sorts of things (among other things, the state of the cache in my Seagate Momentus XTs), but I haven't seen less than 38 seconds ever on this machine, in its current configuration. Not a big difference, yes, but it's free, so it's good.

Mind you, this is on a machine that's loaded with software (roughly 95 processes right after startup, and 2.1GB used memory). Not bad at all for a system with mechanical drives.

 

Now that its official, please download the drivers directly from the Intel website and continue the discussions here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...storage-driver-10-1-0-1008-gets-official.html