Intel® Optane™ Setup
Intel® Optane™ is a combination of a compatible mem-
ory device and Intel Rapid Storage Technology soft-
ware. This combination is designed to speed up your
system performance by caching boot data, executables,
frequently accessed data and system page files to a non
volatile, low latency Intel® Optane™ SSD.
Contact your distributor or supplier to see if your system
supports this technology.
If you are reinstalling a system that has previously been
setup in Intel RST Premium mode, make sure you have
disabled the Intel Optane Memory (see
Optane™ on page
6).
Intel® Optane™ Setup Procedure
You need to setup Intel
Optane™ before installing your
®
Windows 10 operating system, and you will need to pre-
pare the following in order to do so.
• The Microsoft Windows 10 OS DVD.
• An attached external DVD drive.
• An Intel® Optane™ SSD installed in your system.
• The Device Drivers & Utilities + User's Manual disc.
1. Start-up your notebook computer and press F2 to enter the BIOS
and go to the Setup Utility.
2. Go to the Boot menu, select UEFI Setting and press Enter.
3. Set UEFI Boot to "Enabled".
4. Press Esc to exit the menu and go to the Main menu.
5. Select OffBoard NVMe Controller Configuration and press
Enter to check that an Intel® Optane™ SSD is present.
6. Press Esc to exit the menu and go to the Advanced menu.
7. Select SATA Mode, press Enter and select Intel RST
Premium... and select <OK>.
8. Press F10 to "Save and Exit" and select <Yes>, however note
below.
• Make sure the Windows 10 OS DVD is in the attached DVD
drive and as the computer starts up it will automatically boot
from the Windows 10 OS DVD (you will be prompted to press
a key to boot from the DVD).
9. Click Next > Install Now to continue installing the operating
system as normal (see your Windows documentation if you
need help on installing the Windows OS).
Disabling Intel®
10. Select Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).
11. It is recommended that you select and then delete existing
partitions.
12. Click New to create a partition for Windows.
13. It is very important to make sure that when you create the
partition, leave at least a minimum of unallocated space of 5MB.
14. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the Windows 10
operating system.
15. Install the Windows drivers (see
the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) driver.
16. Run the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology application.
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22). Make sure you install
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