Gigabyte Z590 AORUS XTREME WATER 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 Step 1: After entering the operating system, insert the AORUS USB flash drive into your computer. On the Xpress Install screen, select Intel® Rapid Storage Technology to install and follow the onscreen 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 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