Upgrading Laptop drive to SSD

[Blasman]

Sorry if this question has been asked already...  I searched but didn't find an answer for it. 

I have a circa 2012 Samsung laptop (3rd generation Intel processor) and have upgraded the failing conventional single spinning SATA3 hard drive to a SATA3 SSD (WD Blue), running Windows 10

Is there any value in having Intel Rapid Storage Technology  installed or can I uninstall it now?

I only have a single SSD, so no RAID at all.

The laptop has a 16GB Sandisk SSD soldered into the Mboard, which has failed, and I have disabled it in Windows 10 (doesn't show up in BIOS). 

Since the upgrade it has been throwing errors to the Eventviewer about disk files access, and I think its probably related to IRST and ExpressCache (which used the 16GB Sandisk) which I uninstalled ExpressCache.

Other than that the oldtimer is smoking fast now, definitely worth the upgrade.

Thanks

[AlHill · Accepted solution]

You can uninstall it.

First, just to be sure you know where it is, boot to the bios and look for the SATA mode.  It will set to Raid.   Do not change it  yet.

Boot back to the OS.

RUN MSCONFIG, and change to SAFE BOOT.

Reboot to the bios.

Change the SATA MODE to AHCI

Save and reboot to the OS

RUN MSCONFIG, and change to NORMAL BOOT.

Reboot.

That is it. 

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Maybe Windows 12 will be better]

[Blasman]

Thanks.  Seems to work fine without it.