What does the RST installer do that the F6 driver doesn't?

[Coup27]

After deciding that 2 x Samsung 830 128GB's in RAID0 was appreciably no faster than a single 128GB, I decided to go back to one drive. Normally I install Windows using the MSAHCI driver and then install the RST package (iata_enu.exe) afterwards. I have never had a problem with this method but I have always wondered what the difference was between the two. When in AHCI mode on a single SSD, the RST GUI is pretty pointless. Anyway, I loaded the latest RST F6 driver during Windows installation and then setup the rest of my system. "Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller" was present under "IDE ATA/ATAPI" running 11.2.0.1006 but the system felt slower. I ran CDM and got this:

These are pants and suggested it was running on SATA 3Gbps. I installed the RST package, rebooted twice and re-ran CDM:

More like it.

So my question is, what does the package do that the F6 driver files doesn't?

All done using Windows 7 x64 on below system

 

[Fernando 1]

So my question is, what does the package do that the F6 driver files doesn't?

Your extremely different benchmark results are interesting, but I suspect, that this is a TRIM effect and has nothing to do with the installed RST Console software.
You can test it yourself by uninstalling the RST software and redoing the benchmark test.

 

[Coup27]

Why do you think it would be TRIM? I have only installed about 25GB on this system and I secure erased the SSD before I started so would it not be still using clean blocks?

 

[rgallant]

strange things going on here also

-aug.20 ran as-ssd bench ,my 2 120 g2's have not been cleaned from apr. 2011 so the same dirty score 690-710.[x58 or z77.]
-had the floppy out to clean them , but wanted to to update to the new 804 bios for the M5F and redo do the oc settings ,did that aug.25 and would do the erase to day when I had a stable system , then load the 11.2 drivers for trimming my raid 0.

so ran as-ssd bench last night first run could I see writes at 220 ,and a score of 816 , second run came in at 823 . highest ever was 812 on the x58 [clean]
ROM 11.0.0.1339 [same as 701 bios]
drivers 11.1.0.1006
-so either a bios bug fix kicked up my score or some how they got trimmed.

 

[ohforfs]

Run intel inf installer, then install RST again - I bet they come back to what you expect.

 

[Coup27]

Run intel inf installer, then install RST again - I bet they come back to what you expect.

That's not what I am asking.

 

[ohforfs]

I know, but it will fix your problem