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Conguring a RAID Set
3-3 Installing Intel
®
Optane
Memory and Storage Management
Steps:
After entering the operating system, make sure your Internet
connection works properly and launch the GIGABYTE APP
Center. On the "Not Installed\New Drivers" screen, select Intel
Rapid Storage Technology driver to install. Follow the on-screen
instructions to continue. When completed, restart the system.
A. Enabling an Intel
®
Optane
Memory
A-1. 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.
7. The SATA controller must set in Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration mode.
Step 1:
Go to Settings\IO Ports\SATA And RST Conguration
and make sure RST Control PCIe Storage Devices
is set to Manual. Then depending on which M.2
connector you install the Optane
memory in, set the
corresponding PCIe Storage Dev on Port XX item to
RST Controlled.
Step 2:
After re-entering the operating system, launch the
Intel
®
Optane
Memory and Storage Management
application from the Start menu. If you install more
than one Optane
memory, please select which one
you are going to use. Then select which drive to be
accelerated. Click Enable Intel
®
Optane
Memory.
All data on the Optane
memory will be erased. Make
sure you back up the data before continuing. Follow the
on-screen instructions to proceed. When completed,
restart the system.
A-2. Installation Guidelines