Gigabyte C246-WU4 - Installing an Intel Optane Memory

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 disk
InstallationGuidelines
InstallationinIntelRSTPremiumWithIntelOptaneSystemAccelerationmode
1. After system restarts, go to the BIOS Setup, make sure CSM Support under the BIOS menu is disabled.
2. Go to Peripherals\SATAAndRSTConguration and make sure iRSTeSupport and UseRSTLegacyOROM
is disabled. If you want to enable the Optane
™
memory installed in the M2A connector, set PCIeStorage
Device on Port 9 to RSTControlled; to enable the Optane
™
memory installed in the M2M connector, set
PCIeStorageDeviceonPort21 to RSTControlled.
3. Enter the operating system, launch the Intel
®
RapidStorageTechnology utility from the Start menu, and
then enable Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory on the Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory screen.
4. 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. Follow the on-screen instructions to proceed. When completed,
restart the system.
5. Launch the Intel
®
RapidStorageTechnology utility from the Start menu and make sure the Intel
®
Optane
™
Memoryhasbeenenabled.Ifyouwanttoacceleratethesystemdrive,youcanselectspecicfolders,les,
or applications to accelerate using the Intel
®
Optane
™
MemoryPinning function. (The Optane
™
memory
used must have at least 32 GB capacity.)
• An Optane
™
memory cannot be used to accelerate an M.2 PCIe SSD.
• If more than one Optane
™
memory is installed, you can select only one of them to accelerate your
SATA-based boot drive. The other(s) can only be used as data drive(s).
• Do not abruptly remove the Optane
™
memory. Doing so will cause the operating system to stop
functioning correctly.
• If you want to change/remove the Optane
™
memory, you must disable it using the Intel
®
Rapid
StorageTechnologyorIntel(R)Optane
™
Memoryapplicationrst.
• After enabling the Optane
™
memory, the related BIOS settings will remain even after a BIOS update.
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)NVMeController and click Next to load the driver and continue
the OS installation.
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