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Supported Drives for Acceleration with Intel® Optane™ Memory M Series

Content Type: Troubleshooting   |   Article ID: 000025074   |   Last Reviewed: 04/08/2025

Environment

Intel® Optane™ Memory

Intel® Optane™ memory M series is supported to accelerate the following drive types:

  • a single SATA drive, or
  • a former single Intel® SSD 660p/665p Series drive with Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver/SW version 17.5.2.1024 or later

These drives may contain the operating system (Boot Drive) or be a data drive (used for storage, but does not contain the operating system).

See additional configuration and compatibility requirements in the User Guides for Intel® Optane™ Memory Devices.

The following are unsupported configurations; results cannot be guaranteed:

  1. A single drive with multiple operating systems
  2. Dual OS boot systems (multiple storage drives, each containing an OS)
Notes
  • Intel® Optane™ Memory refers to these products.
  • The Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P, 905P and 800P products are not to be used to accelerate the HDD/SSDs noted above. These are standard storage drives and not supported by the Intel RST Driver/Software.