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- The newer Intel drivers are only meant to support the newest hardware on the (relatively) newer platforms so they are better optimized for these platforms and chipsets. Using an older version may yield an increase in performance if you notice the HDDs are particularly slow.
- The conventional (or legacy) Intel drivers with a single file DO NOT have support for TRIM operations (only applicable if you are using an SSD). The newer style drivers do not work on XP (though Windows 7 and up is supported along with limited functionality (there are known issues) with Vista)
- The Baytrail chipsets are not properly supported by Intel themselves so running anything that does not work out of the box on a Baytrail chipset may be a lengthy process of trial and error.
- In case you cannot find drivers for the specific system you are working on, it might be worth a try to unpack the supported version of the drivers(non-legacy) from both the files, and make an attempt to repackage and resign them in order to get them to a format recognizable by XP. A downgrade might also be possible if you know that the SCSI hasnt changed much (although in this case you would manually have to find the *.inf files with the device hardware Ids and add a line for the specific chipset that you are working on.) NOTE: Both these processes are only responsible for making the driver INSTALLABLE on the machine, they do not change the driver itself, so there is no guarantee that the repackaged and resigned drivers will work at all on the system(though they should give full support as long as the installer detects the hard drive). More information about using PkgSignTool can be found here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn789236(v=vs.85).aspx (For resigning drivers). You may also want to view this link: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd919238(v=ws.10).aspx for the process for signing new drivers.
- Instructions for importing the certificate for the WinRAID forum drivers (in case windows rejects them) can be found here http://www.win-raid.com/t1300f25-Tips-Discussion-Usage-of-quot-mod-signed-quot-Drivers.html
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