No, if you installed IRST, the Intel AHCI driver will replace the default ACHI driver, you dont have to do anything beside download and install the IRST.
You can always try and uninstall IRST later.
So, do you think Intel released buggy ISRT to destroy people's hopes and dreams? it's more optimized than default one, and probably more advantages, but it's up to you.

yeah your score is 458. normally it's like 415 to 420 from what i have observed.

as for RST drivers, to get the best one it will be a trial and error process. to me the msahci driver is just fail-safe (i.e. all other options failed, because it's quite old). intel RST on the other hand is still in active maintenance and development.

Hi guys, i m planning to add a msata SSD to my laptop(y400).

Which model should I buy in term of performance and warranty,
crucial m500 or plextor m5m ?

Yesss....both of you are correct. Using latest IRST seems improved the performance a bit

MSAHCI


Intel RST



Thanks for head up~!

man.. first day Intel 530 owner.. and already having problems with the AHCI config

went on boot loop when changed from IDE to AHCI

then attempt to install AHCI drivers from ASUS, platform not supported -.-

i have 3 plextor m5m in laptops (almost a year; no issue so far) I think the warranty period is the same for both.

a better practice imo is change bios settings, install ssd, then reinstall OS.

did you try the drivers (chipset, RST) from intel? so far i have no issue with w7/8/8.1.

If you dont want to reinstall your OS, here's the trick http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=313676
Another trick is changing SSD to other SATA port with different chipset, but i cant recall if whether if this one will work correctly or not
Never touched SSD and BIOS for decades already.

Hi guys..
Due to some circumstance,got rm300 to be spent at idealtech
My board model is as per siggy

Mind to advice my best bang for the model?, could stretch my budget alittle

EVO 128GB? five years warranty, RAPID mode, stretch a little get 840 pro then

i tried changing before installing the SSD
same endless boot looop

i suspected the drivers as i didnt install the Intel/ASUS RAID/AHCI drivers. but the driver setup keep saying 'this platform not supported'

oh saw that as well, tried but no msahci, so i use storahci

changed the value to 1 (default was 0) and nothing happened

maybe this post, http://jackngblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/sol...dows-7-x64.html could be of help.

that guy manually inserted his registry to the PC

come to think about it, i havent even update BIOS.. is it necessary?

EDIT: got it working right, it seems i missed the second registry edit

thanks for the help!

This post has been edited by marfccy: Mar 24 2014, 08:33 PM

good to know

Simple
Boot with IDE
Modified registry to enable AHCI
Reboot and go bios change to AHCI
That's it

yep already fixed it dee, the link given above solved everything

gonna see if im willing to post benchmarks

here goes the benchie, seems decent

yeah everything is fine now.

if you have more ram, you might wanna try primocache. it's really making things more snappy:



i don't care about writes i just boost the reads.

wait, this is already using ramdisk? or still SSD?

i dont quite catch what you mean by if i have more ram

it's not ramdisk. it's ssd with primocache enabled, a ram-based caching for disks. usually i do this to my hdd's.

since it's ram-based, you need some spare ram space.

i see

impressive speeds indeed, 8GB/s read. but ill stick to SSD atm

dont think 8GB RAM is sufficient