Gigabyte Z590 AORUS XTREME - Installing Intel Optane Memory and Storage Management

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Conguring a RAID Set
3-3 Installing Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory and Storage Management
Step 1:
After entering the operating system, insert the motherboard driver
disc into your optical drive. On the Xpress Install screen, select
Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory and Storage Management to install and
follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. When
completed, restart the system.
Step 2:
After you install the included motherboard drivers, make sure your
Internet connection works properly. The system will automatically
install the software from Intel
®
. Restart the system after the driver
is installed.
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