Posts Tagged ‘RAIDFix’

Intel released an update to its Matrix Storage Manager software just the other day, which among other things, enables TRIM on SSD drives connected to a controller in RAID mode. In the past, you could not utilize TRIM on any SSD connected to a controller with RAID enabled, even though the drives were not part of an actual array. Now, if you are running Windows 7 (and Server 2008, IIRC), you can have RAID arrays alongside your SSDs and enjoy TRIM support.

Unfortunately, this does not mean that you can use TRIM on a RAID array of SSDs. That technology is still (hopefully) in the pipe.

Also, in this release, Intel has deprecated the “Matrix Storage Manager” moniker and replaced it with “Rapid Storage Technology” or RST.  Going forward, their RAID driver and software package will be named as such.

Updates to RAIDFix enabling support of this new version are forthcoming.

If you want to grab the new drivers, head this way.

If you have not been by the site recently, I have updated a few my applications this week, and I have added a pair of new apps as well.

The newcomers include AudioX and RAIDFix.

AudioX is a labor of love several years in the works. A process born in batch files, migrated to Perl, and eventually rewritten in C#, AudioX converts songs between audio formats including FLAC, APE, AAC, MP3, and WAV. I really needed an application to convert my APE audio to FLAC for archival, and to compress my FLAC audio to AAC format for my iPod and MP3 format for my car. AudioX does this for me, managing tags and album art, all while taking advantage of PCs with multiple cores. It’s a great app, give it a try!

RAIDFix is an application I wrote to help the countless people that visit my site looking for a way to enable RAID on their Intel ICH-based Windows PC after they have installed Windows with RAID disabled. I have published walkthroughs on how to accomplish this, but RAIDFix makes it extremely simple. Patching your computer to allow you to enable RAID in the BIOS is now one-click away.

Additionally, Suction received updates to allow the user to specify the text they want used when renaming duplicate files as well as the ability to specify whether this text is prepended or appended to the file name.

MailBin had a bit of work done on the back-end, in order to do away with the flat configuration file used by the program. Instead, MailBin now uses Windows’ standard user config files like the rest of my applications.

All of the applications listed above now take advantage of my new web-based update system. The programs will check this web site to see if there is an update version of the application automatically, alerting you if a new release has been published.