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Questions tagged [intel-rst]

Use for questions pertaining to Intel's Rapid Storage Technology and/or its features, which include Intel Matrix RAID, Intel Rapid RAID and Intel Smart Response Technology (also called SSD Caching). If your question is about Intel Rapid Start Technology, use the [intel-rapid-start] tag.

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Parity errors after verify with Intel RST

I have Intel RST RAID 1 running on a Windows 7 machine. I have it set to do a verify and repair every week. I frequently notice parity errors, some weeks over 100 for a 1 TB RAID 1 array. I've ...
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Intel RST driver - magic performance boost (only) up till version 11.2.0?

what's the magic behind the massive write speed performance boost by intel RST drivers up till and including version 11.2.0? i have done some performance measurements of my application that is extreme ...
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Use Intel Rapid Storage Technology with a secondary PCIe RAID card

I have Intel's RST on motherboard using RAID1 (2x2TB) and a boot drive. Trying to add another RAID1 (2x3TB) has failed since RST is limited to 2.2TB for RAID1. Now I've bought another RAID card in ...
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Bootable RAID1 on Intel Z170 RST with 2 x SSD Samsung 950 Pro NVME M.2 for Linux

I'm trying to assemble a bootable RAID1 for Linux on ASRock Z170 Extreme 7+ with 2 x SSD Samsung 950 Pro NVME connected directly to M.2 ports using Intel Rapid Storage Technology in UEFI. I was ...
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How can I enable "acceleration using solid-state hybrid drive"

My Laptop is a Lenovo Y5070-B that has an SSHD hard drive. SATA Controller Mode was in AHCI mode and it doesn't have RAID mode. There are only two options: AHCI and Compatible. When I set this option ...
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NVMe Drive not Detected on Linux

I am running Kali Linux and it won't see my NVMe m2 drive If I turn off Intel rapid storage technology in the bios then it will work but i will no be able to use windows anymore. Any way to fix this? ...
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Is it possible to create a RAID from only partial disk?

We have a dual boot system where we install firmare on two partitions, additionally we have a data partition. We have two disks on the system and I wonder if we can create a raid for the data ...
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Is Intel ESRT2 Software-RAID?

I have 2 options for configuring RAID at the UEFI level. Intel ESRT 2 and Intel VROC which is the successor to Intel RST (rapid start). I know Intel RST and thus VROC (which is present on non server ...
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Tried to dual-boot ubuntu and win10, got RST error, switched to AHCI and now windows won't boot

I decided to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04.1 (UEFI, Dell Inspiron 3583), and got myself a USB flash drive to do so. Shortly into the install, I got an error about RST needing to be changed to ...
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Intel® RST Mirror data

Something broke my mirror RAID(1). I ended up with two disks in windows that was not synced. How do a create a new mirror raid from an HDD with data on it. I dont want a blank new mirror raid. I want ...
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How do you install Windows drivers without having access to Windows?

I've been trying to fix my girlfriend's laptop, and her issue seemed to be pretty tough to tackle. I consistently receive the BSOD error: driver irql not less or equal (iastora.sys) before I'm ...
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Re-installing Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology driver

I just updated the BIOS on my MSI motherboard to the latest version without really thinking about the repercussions. I had the BIOS version of Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology Driver installed on my ...
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Intel RST turned a disk off

I have an Asus ROG laptop and I got a BSOD while I was working and then after the restart, one of my partitions disappeared. This used to show two disks but it only shows 1 disk and the cd drive. ...
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Intel Smart Response Technology (cache) and vendor SSD tools

I have a laptop with Haswell Core i5 and Intel Rapid Storage Technology. The OS drive is an mSATA Samsung EVO 840. As you may have heard, they had some miscalibration leading to excessive retries ...
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How can I re-establish my RAID5 Array (Intel Rapid Storage)?

I had a RAID 5 array, but two of the drives dropped from the array. (While troubleshooting another issue ASUS suggested I update my MoBo BIOS, but neglected to tell me this would corrupt my RAID ...
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