Gigabyte W480 VISION D - Installing an Intel Optane Memory

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Conguring a RAID Set
3-3 Installing an Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory
A. 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.
B. Installation Guidelines
B-1: Installation in AHCI mode
IftheSATAcontrollerhasbeenconguredinAHCImode,pleasefollowthestepsbelow:
(Note) If the system already has Intel
®
RapidStorageTechnologyutilityinstalled,youhavetoremoveitrst
beforeinstallingtheIntel(R)Optane(TM)MemorySystemAccelerationapplication.
Step 1:
After entering the operating system, insert the motherboard
driver disk into your optical drive. On the Xpress Install
screen, select Intel(R) Optane(TM) Memory System
Acceleration
(Note)
to install. Follow the on-screen instructions
to continue. When completed, restart the system.
Step 2:
After re-entering the operating system, follow the on-screen
instructions to complete the settings, and then the Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory application will appear automatically. 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. 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.
Step 3:
Launch the Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory application from the
Start menu and make sure the Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory has
been enabled. (The SATA controller mode is changed to
"IntelRSTPremiumWithIntelOptaneSystemAcceleration"
from AHCI mode. DO NOT change your SATA controller
mode back to AHCI. Doing so will cause the Optane
™
memory unable to function properly.)
Step 4:
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.)