Intel® Optane™ Memory M Series
Installation & User Guide
February 2021
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Overview
Intel® Optane™ memory is a system acceleration solution that can be used to increase responsiveness on
supported Intel platforms. This solution uses the Intel® Optane™ memory media that is based on Intel® Optane™
technology, along with the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) driver. It is a dual-media solution (fast
media for c slower media for storage capacity) that is presented to the host OS as a single SSD when
properly enabled.
When this new memory media is installed between the processor and slower storage media, the computer can
store commonly used data and programs closer to the processor. In doing so, Intel® Optane™ memory accelerates
your computer’s access to frequently used documents, pictures, videos and application files and remembers
them even after you power it off.
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About this Document
This document provides the platform requirements and installation process for Intel® Optane™ memory products,
including available applications to manage these devices and the following products:
•
Intel® Optane™ memory / Intel® Optane™ memory M Series products when paired with a supported
“slower media” drive.
Note:
The Installation and User guide for the
Intel® Optane™ Memory H Series
can be found here:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023989/memory-and-storage/intel-
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Minimum Requirements
Below are the requirements for a system to support system acceleration with Intel® Optane™ Memory. Systems
purchased with Intel® Optane™ memory preinstalled and/or branded as
Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready
will meet
these requirements.
1.
Motherboard
: Supported motherboards will contain at least 1 M.2 PCIe NVMe storage port and the
proper BIOS to support Intel® Optane™ memory.
2.
Processor
: See
for supported Processors for each Intel® RST driver release.
3.
Intel® Optane™ Memory device, or “Fast Media”
4.
Drive to be accelerated, aka “Slower Media”
: Only a single pass-through disk can be accelerated.
Please see below for supported options:
a.
SATA HDD – single pass-through
b.
SATA SSD – single pass-through
c.
SSHD – single pass-through
d.
Intel® SSD 660p/665p Series. Support was added with the Intel® RST 17.5.2.x driver version.
5.
Operating System
: Microsoft Windows 10 x64 bit (Version 1703/Build 15063) or greater required.
Note:
The Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management application (see Section 5.1) requires Microsoft
Windows 10 x64 bit (Version 1803/Build 17134) or greater.
