@Fernando
I don’t know why I wrote that, I didn’t mean to write that and I shouldn’t have written that. I meant to write that the installer does not include a newer driver than the one already published on the site. 
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Which driver is recommended for a Z77 Intel 7 series / C216 Controller, VEN 8086, DEV 1E02 on Windows 11 and Windows 8.1 without using RAID?
@westlake
Thanks for the link to the new package, which has been offered by Station-Drivers.
@all
The start post has been updated by me today (04/07/2023).
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On Intel website the latest is: 19.5.2.1049.5
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver Installation Software with Intel® Optane™ Memory (11th up to 13th Gen Platforms)
@SoNic67
You are right, but this doesn’t mean, that there are no newer/better Intel RST/RSTe drivers available.
Please keep in mind:
- Not all Intel drivers are offered on Intel’s Download Center website. Very often the official presentation by the chipset manufacturer Intel is delayed, sometimes it is never done. This has nothing to do with the usability of the related driver
- It is the task of the mainboard’s/laptop’s/NUC’s manfacturer (and not of the chipset manufacturer) to offer updated/optimized drivers for the PC/laptop/NUC users.
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Sadly, the manufacturers don’t care to update too long their products. They are in the business of selling after all…
I usually buy used workstations because they have longer time updates than normal computers. But even those, after a while, have only emergency patches, not performance.
@SoNic67
Until now interested users can get the download links to the latest/best Intel RST/RSTe drivers within the first post of this thread.
We have some Forum members (e.g. westlake), who are searching for them very often in the internet and post them here as soon as they got access to them.
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@westlake
Thanks for the link to the new Intel RST driverpack v19.5.5.1052 WHQL.
@all
The start post has been updated by me today (04/22/2023).
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Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) v18.37.7.1013 WHQL [06/02/2023]
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@Dagal
Thanks for having found and uploaded the new Intel RST driverpack v18.37.7.1013 WHQL.
@all
The start post has been updated by me today (04/28/2023).
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The start post has been updated again today (04/29/2023). Thanks to S-D for the source package.
Changelog:
new: 64bit Intel RST VMD driver v18.7.7.1013 WHQL dated 02/06/2023
new: Intel RST Drivers & Software Set v18.7.7.1013.1 dated 03/08/2023
Enjoy it!
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The start post has been updated again today (05/17/2023). Thanks to S-D for the source package.
Changelog:
new: Intel RSTe VROC+NVMe Drivers & Software Set v8.0.4.1009 dated 12/30/2022
Enjoy it!
Why has the version 15.2 been removed from the title post ? I needed to reinstall it today and couldn’t find the link, had to dig up an archive hard drive to find it. I need it because, on any version after 15.2 (so 15.5 and after, up to the latest versions that still support RST on pre Alder-lake), i have insanely high cpu usage when accessing RAID1 or RAID5 arrays, regardless of the cache settings in the intel utility. This will also limit the throughput of many-disk RAID5 arrays, here is a pair of screenshots demonstrating the difference:
I don’t remember the reason for their removal.
Just for your information:
The Intel RST drivers v15.2.16.1060 dated 03/30/2017 have been replaced already in 2017 by the v15.5.2.1054 ones dated 04/24/2017, because they were newer and according to my own test results better for systems with an Intel 100/200 Series chipsets and a RAID array.
Please have a look into the start post of >this< thread.
It was not a good idea to compare drivers, which belong to completely different RST platforms (v15.2.16.1060 vs. v18.37.6.1010). It would have been better to compare the RST RAID drivers v15.2.16.1060 with the v15.5.2.1054.
Please let me know your results.
Yes, as i said in that post, and here Intel RST/RSTe Drivers (latest: v19.5.5.1052/ v8.0.4.1006) - #2394 by rajkosto
anything AFTER 15.2, starting with 15.5 (and ive tried a couple of versions from each of v16, v17, v18, etc), which has Optane support, has this high cpu usage (and low throughput because of CPU limitations on many-disk RAID5) bug. and it still hasnt been fixed in in the latest v18 we got in 2023.
And this is on a Gigabyte Aorus Pro Z390 board with latest bios, so the firmware RST is way newer than v15 anyway, that has no effect on this bug, v15.2.16 is still the last version that has normal CPU usage and performance on RAID1/RAID5 arrays.
It’s also not something with my configuration/OS, because i’ve had it on win8.1, win10, and i just tried it with a clean install of win11 with latest driver 18.37.7 and it still has the high cpu usage.
Here is a mirror of the v15.2.16 you had previously in the main post, the last version for me that has normal CPU usage and performance on RAID1 and RAID5 arrays.
full set: 12.5 MB file on MEGA
64bit driver only: 403.3 KB file on MEGA
@rajkosto
Thank you very much for your additional explanations.
You were and are absolutely right - I must have removed the v15.2 RST drivers and the related Software Set during the past 2 years, but I didn’t remember that. I am sorry for the confusion - my bad.
Although I am not 100% sure about the reason, I suspect, that the start post of this thread had reached the maximum possible number of characters and the consequence was, that I had to remove an old driver for being able to add a new one to the start post.
Fortunately such character limit for a certain post doesn’t exist within our new home at level1techs. So I was able to re-add the related drivers today.
Thanks again for your input!
here is direct comparison of 15.2.16 System process CPU usage compared with 15.5.2 (version released right after 15.2.16, first one to include Optane support), please ignore additional 10% total cpu usage added in comparison to previous tests by running Process Explorer:
i didnt even have the RST software installed this time, i just compared the 2 drivers standalone (its the same if i do install the RST software anyway, its just for management)
the in-box win10 21H2 driver iaStorAVC.sys 15.44 has the same high cpu usage as anything after 15.2.16:
my firmware uefi RST module version is “Intel(R) RST 17.7.0.4404 RAID Driver”