User's Manual

3-2 Installing an Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory
System Requirements
1. Intel
®
Optane
™
memory
2. The Optane
™
memory must have at least 16 GB capacity, and it must have equal or smaller capacity than
the hard drive/SSD to be accelerated.
3. The Optane
™
memorycannotbeusedtoaccelerateanexistingRAIDarray;theacceleratedharddrive/SSD
cannotbeincludedinaRAIDarray.
4. The hard drive/SSD to be accelerated must be a SATA hard drive or M.2 SATA SSD.
5. The hard drive/SSD to be accelerated can be a system drive or data drive. The system drive must be GPT
formatted and have Windows 10 64-bit (or later version) installed on it. The data drive must also be GPT
formatted.
6. The motherboard driver disc
Install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and operating system
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install the operating system.
Installing the Operating System
AssomeoperatingsystemsalreadyincludeRAID/AHCIdriver,youdonotneedtoinstallseparateRAID/AHCI
driver during the Windows installation process. After the operating system is installed, we recommend that you
installallrequireddriversfromthemotherboarddriverdiscusing"XpressInstall"toensuresystemperformance
andcompatibility.IftheoperatingsystemtobeinstalledrequiresthatyouprovideadditionalSATARAID/AHCI
driver during the OS installation process, please refer to the steps below:
1. Copy the IRST folder under \Boot in the driver disc to your USB thumb drive.
2. Boot from the Windows setup disc and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting
you to load the driver appears, select Browse.
3. ThenbrowsetotheUSBashdriveandselectthelocationofthedriver.Thelocationofthedriverisas
follows:\IRST\f6py-x64
4. When a screen as shown, select Intel(R) Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller and click Next to
load the driver and continue the OS installation.
3. After entering the CREATE VOLUME MENU screen, enter a volume name with 1~16 letters (letters cannot
be special characters) under the Nameitemandpress<Enter>.Then,selectaRAIDlevel.RAIDlevels
supportedincludeRAID0,RAID1,RAID10,andRAID5(theselectionsavailabledependonthenumberof
the hard drives being installed). Press <Enter> to proceed.
4. Under Disksitem,selecttheharddrivestobeincludedintheRAIDarray.Ifonlytwoharddrivesareinstalled,
they will be automatically assigned to the array. Set the stripe block size if necessary. The stripe block size
can be set from 4 KB to 128 KB. Once you have selected the stripe block size, press <Enter>.
5. Enter the array capacity and press <Enter>. Finally press <Enter> on the Create Volume item to begin
creatingtheRAIDarray.Whenpromptedtoconrmwhethertocreatethisvolume,press<Y>toconrmor
<N> to cancel.
6. Whencompleted,youcanseedetailedinformationabouttheRAIDarrayintheDISK/VOLUME INFORMATION
section,includingtheRAIDlevel,stripeblocksize,arrayname,andarraycapacity,etc.ToexittheRAID
BIOS utility, press <Esc> or select 6. Exit in MAIN MENU.
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