Gigabyte Z590 AORUS MASTER User Manual - Page 71

Installing Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management, A. Enabling an Intel, Optane, Memory

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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 SATA controller must set in Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration mode. A-2. Installation Guidelines Step 1: Go to Settings\IO Ports\SATA And RST Configuration 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. - 71 - Configuring a RAID Set

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Configuring 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 SATA controller must set in Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration mode.
Step 1:
Go to
Settings\IO Ports\SATA And RST Configuration
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