Installation Guide for Intel® Optane™ Memory

Last Reviewed: 13-Apr-2018

Article ID: 000023989

Intel® Optane™ Memory is a system acceleration solution for the new 7th Gen Intel® Core™ processor-based platforms or later. This solution uses Intel® Optane™ Technology, based on 3D XPoint™ memory media, along with the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) driver. It accelerates slower SATA-based storage devices like HDD, SSHD, or SATA SSD.

This guide includes information on how to:

Set up and configure Intel Optane memory.
Install the Intel Optane memory module and Intel RST driver.
Enable and disable via the Intel Optane memory user interface.
Enable and disable via the Intel RST user interface.
Troubleshoot issues.

Intel® Optane™ Memory Installation and User Guide (PDF)
File name: intel-optane-memory-user-installation.pdf
Size: 3.19 MB
Date: September 2017
Revision: 2

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Note

Secondary/Data drive acceleration:

With the latest Intel Optane memory and Intel Rapid Storage Technology (Intel RST) applications (Version 16.0.2.1086 or later), the Secondary/Data drive can be accelerated with Intel Optane memory modules.
This capability is only supported with the 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and Intel® 300 Series Chipsets. for more information please see Software and Platform Support for Intel® Optane™ Memory.
An update to the System BIOS may be required to upgrade the Intel® RST Pre-OS UEFI Driver version to 16.0.2.3402 or later. Consult your motherboard vendor for the proper system BIOS version for this support.
All additional system requirements and BIOS settings are the same as noted in the guide above.
Find more information on Secondary/Data SATA Drive Acceleration with Intel® Optane™ Memory.