What is Intel RST Service?

[walter.sk]

I do not have any drives in a RAID array. In my task bar I have an icon for "Intel RST Service."  I read the help file in the application, and as usual I can't figure out whether I should have it activated for any or all of my internal or external drives, or find a way in its Preferences file to make it go away.

I'm running an i7 930, several internal hard drives and a pair of external hard drives.  What would this RST do for me, if anything?

[degrub]

well a quick google---
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/chpsts/imsm

[tived]

Hi Walter,

I found that when I installed the latest drivers for the Intel controller on my mainboard, i trippled the speed of my raid, from 200 mb/sec to over 600mb/sec (3x SSD's)

I was able to install the drivers without any damage to my data.

Henrik

[walter.sk]

I found that when I installed the latest drivers for the Intel controller on my mainboard, i trippled the speed of my raid, from 200 mb/sec to over 600mb/sec (3x SSD's)
Henrik

That sounds good.  Again, though, since I do not have any RAID drives, my question is still this:  What would RST do for me, or should I deactivate it?

[tived]

i dunno, i have no non-raid setups... but i doubt it will hurt you

Henrik