Announcement: Changes for Intel® Optane™ Memory with the Intel® RST Driver Version 19.0 and Greater

The Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) driver software version 19.x contains multiple changes in regard to Intel® Optane™ Memory, as listed below.

1. The Intel RST Driver supports 11th/12th Generation Processor-based platforms only with an Intel® VMD capable BIOS.

   Note	Driver will only install properly when Intel VMD is enabled in the BIOS. Learn about How to Enable Intel® VMD Capable Platforms for RAID or Intel® Optane™ Memory Configuration with the Intel® RST Driver.

2. Intel Optane Memory Series and Intel Optane Memory M10 Series devices are not supported.

   Note	Learn about these devices reaching Announcement: End-of-Life (EOL) for Intel® Optane™ Memory Products on 12th/13th Generation Intel® Processors and Related Platforms.

3. The Pinning feature will no longer be supported. If upgrading from a previous driver that supported Pinning, pinned data will continue to be accelerated but managed by the standard Intel RST acceleration algorithm.

   Note	The Intel Optane Memory and Storage Management Application version 19.x and later will no longer provide pinning management. The standard algorithm refers to the Intel RST goal of providing increased responsiveness for data that is most used and accessed.

4. Enabling remapping of the drives to be accelerated by the Intel RST driver software can now be done from within the application in the operating system.

   Note	For the Intel RST driver software to detect the storage drives and properly manage them, they must be remapped. With previous releases this was required to be done in the BIOS. Availability of this mapping in the application is new with this latest version of the software.