Intel RST - Do I Need It?

zom247 · 7 Sep 2011 at 07:21

I have it currently installed but it takes about 3-4 mins before it starts fully after startup. I only have one SSD (Crucial C300) and one mechanical HDD. As I'll be doing a re-install this weekend I just want to know if it's worth installing it or just using the native Windows 7 drivers. My setup is:

2600k
MSI P67A-GD65
8 GB RAM
C300 64 GB SSD
Samsung 1TB HDD

Jokester · 7 Sep 2011 at 07:27

I ended up ditching it as it casued me no end of problems.

Surveyor · 7 Sep 2011 at 10:00

For some reason Intel RST is set to delayed startup in Win 7.

If you go to Computer Management and select Services you can set Intel RST to start automatically and it will then start as soon as you boot into Windows.

rjk · 7 Sep 2011 at 10:38

never had an issue with IRST.
make sure your bios and ssd firmware is up to date as there was a few bugs to start with.

the M4 drives on the original firmware had a startup issue. and some z68 boards had issues that were fixed in a bios update.

no big deal, especially for a new platform.

install it as it is required.

prt · 7 Sep 2011 at 11:28

What does irst do. I got an M4 128 using windows 7 and it fly's along. Not installed any other drivers apart from what windows installed. also got a z68 board

LEK-89 · 7 Sep 2011 at 12:10

The only thing noticable with Intel RST when opening the program is that it lists all the information about the SSD/HDD & Optical drives connected and that they are all running normally.

However, it is said that behind the scenes the program also helps manages the drives and helps operate the power usage, general operations of the drive and I've noticed that with the Intel RST installed, it replaces the Intel INF/Windows AHCI SSD driver with it's own custom Intel version.

I was in 2 minds weather to leave it on my comp or scrap it, but what I have read up about it that it is recommended I have decided to leave it on.

Liam

zom247 · 7 Sep 2011 at 12:15

Surveyor said:
For some reason Intel RST is set to delayed startup in Win 7.

If you go to Computer Management and select Services you can set Intel RST to start automatically and it will then start as soon as you boot into Windows.

I've already set it to that. It starts straight away but then the blue circle on the icon takes about 3-4 mins before it turns into the tick.

BIOS and all drivers are up to date as well.