TRIM, SSD's in RAID, and google/bing uselessness

[Sarra]

So, I've been searching, struggling, and giving up on this.

I've got 3 Crucial SSD drives in RAID 0. Windows 10, and not shockingly, Windows 8.1 refused to let me TRIM these drives in RAID. It would let me TRIM them individually.

So, after around 2 hours of searching on bing and google, and finding the same 30 results that literally have nothing to do with this problem, I've given up. The 'best' thing I can find is it's a driver issue. I have a Gigabyte 1150 board, and again, all I can find is a 'unfied driver package' from a third party, which I'm not comfortable running.

So, basically, I'm missing Gigabyte drivers that apparently Gigabyte doesn't give a shit about providing, I've got 3 SSD's I can't TRIM, and if there's a thread or something somewhere on the internet, google and bing don't think it's relevant, and refuse to serve it up in their search engines.

I guess I'm more frustrated than anything else, but I know there's some people here that are better with this kind of thing, so I guess I'm just tossing it out with a touch of hopefulness.

[Sarra]

Oh, I've been on Gigabyte's driver site, and the download thing refuses to download for me, so that's frustrating as hell.

[Sarra]

An update: I got Gigabyte's IE driver installer thing "working", however, it downloaded drivers that don't support my system. I'm not talking just the RAID/SM bus drivers, but everything. In fact, it 'suggested' a 2 year out of date sound driver.

I guess I'm not going to buy any gigabyte products ever again. :( Sad, because this board is high quality and has served me well, but the drivers are total ass.

[wings_of_fire]

Check ebay etc if someone is selling the same board and ask them if they have original drivers.. if yes, then simply buy those drivers.

[Sarra]

I went on Gigabyte's forum and someone gave me a link to a Gigabyte hosted driver repository that doesn't use the ridiculous browser plugin to 'help' with driver identification, and... It's more of the same, sadly.

I'm going to try the newest version of the driver from Intel, but I think I already have it. That is assuming Intel's website works, I'm getting a spinning wheel of diarrhea right now trying to get the download link to work.

I think I might just give up on this system. I'm eyeing a new 1151 board, i7, and 32 GB of RAM, and sadly, not a Gigabyte board. First time I'm filtering out, instead of filtering for, Gigabyte boards. I'm sad to add them to my list of 'shit motherboards', but the driver support isn't bad, it's awful. Makes me glad I picked up an eVGA 980 instead of the Gigabyte 980 I was looking at. Eh, I don't want to spend a hojillion dollars on a new system jsut because staff doesn't care enough to support a 2 year old product anymore.

[BUBBA069]

what chipset is your board?

Also check the details on the SSD, not all play well with being in RAID.

[Sarra]

Originally Posted by BUBBA069

what chipset is your board?

Also check the details on the SSD, not all play well with being in RAID.

It's an H97 chipset.

All 3 SSD's support TRIM, and all 3 support it in RAID.

It's a driver issue, they didn't install correctly and I'm having a bit of a time getting newer ones installed. Intel's website is pretty much useless.

[BUBBA069]

Then all you should need is the current Rapid Storage drivers.

Support for Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST)

[Sarra]

Yeah, clicked the appropriate link and waited 20 minutes, and it never did anything. Web site is broken...

And now it's not, apparently. Downloading them, I'll install tomorrow morning when I get up