Samsung Magician

Your issue isn't typical of a firmware update. That said, I've no idea what went wrong. And for the record, Samsung Magician will only update compatible Samsung drives. If a drive doesn't need a firmware update, no update is performed.

Additionally this isn't an "automatic" update so you'd have to tell Magician to update. With that said, you should only update one drive at a time. In fact I'm pretty sure Magician only allows one drive at a time.

Anyway as said earlier, I've no idea what happened, and thus no suggestions.

I have a ASUS G74SX notebook which was running Samsung Magician 4.9.7 with Rapid Mode on with 2 x 2TB 850Pro's that I updated to Samsung Magician 5.1.0, I am not sure what the exact chipset is as I know that Intel Rapid Storage Technology no longer supports the chipset after 12.x and I already have the latest RST drivers 12.9.4.1000. Samsung Magician 5.1.0 seems to tell me I need to update the drivers as seen in the screenshots attached but there are no newer drivers available, does anyone know what would happen if I tried to manually turn Rapid Mode on or is there another way to get Rapid Mode working? Thanks in advance!

Update - I got Rapid Mode working simply by turning it on manually which resulted in a reboot but what functions are they talking about that cannot be run?



Performance with Rapid Mode Off:


Performance with Rapid Mode On:

Almighty1 said:

Update - I got Rapid Mode working simply by turning it on manually which resulted in a reboot but what functions are they talking about that cannot be run?

The software is asking you to update the Intel IRST drivers - Downloads for Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST). The latest version is 15, you're still running 12. See if updating helps.

Let us know.

fdegrove said:

@sygnus21 : The chipset is no longer supported by RST beyond RST version 12.xxx.

Well if that's the case, that's probably what Magician is complaining about.

And I don't set my BIOS to RAID, but AHCI, thus the IRST drivers. That's me.

@Almighty1, if all seems to be running well (and it looks like it is), I wouldn't worry about the driver update, especially if your board doesn't support it. That said, nothing beats a failure but a try.

Good luck.

fdegrove said:

Hi,
@Almighty1 :

What do you use this RST driver for ? Just a replacement for MS AHCI driver or do you have BIOS RAID enable on a pair of Samsung SSDs ?
@sygnus21 : The chipset is no longer supported by RST beyond RST version 12.xxx.

Cheers,

No idea what the RST driver is used for except I know that's how the laptop shipped with Win7 Home Premium x64 before I upgraded to Windows 10 x64 Home and I think it's supposed to give maximum performance to single SATA drives.

Product Overview for Intel® Rapid Storage Technology

sygnus21 said:

Well if that's the case, that's probably what Magician is complaining about.

And I don't set my BIOS to RAID, but AHCI, thus the IRST drivers. That's me.

@Almighty1, if all seems to be running well (and it looks like it is), I wouldn't worry about the driver update, especially if your board doesn't support it. That said, nothing beats a failure but a try.

Good luck.

Yes, maybe it just does a version number check for the HD Controller drivers to see if it's up to date or not but I wonder what functions in Magician am I supposed to have missing. The Rapid Mode works fine in both 4.9.7 and 5.1.0, I have not tried 5.0.x yet except I know in 4.9.7, it never complained. I never SSD drives until after Windows 10 RTM because of Cliff so the system originally was Windows 7 x64 Home Premium. Is there any advantages of Intel RST over Windows built in drivers since I remember originally, they said Intel abandoned support for Windows 10 with Intel RST since Microsoft already supposedly had AHCI and RAID built in.