Intel® Optane™ Memory M Series
Installation & User Guide
February 2021
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345866-002US
6
Additional Features/Capabilities
This section covers additional features/capabilities provided by Intel® Optane™ memory capable applications.
6.1
Data Drive Acceleration (DDA)
Data drive acceleration, or DDA, is the capability to accelerate – with Intel® Optane™ memory -- a ‘slower media’
which does not contain an operating system, only data.
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Statistics, as shown in the Intel® Optane™ memory application, are not available with DDA.
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Systems with more than one bootable drive are not supported and results cannot be guaranteed.
Hardware/Software Requirements
All the Minimum Requirements (Section 1.2) continue to apply to DDA and the specific data drive being
accelerated.
System must contain the following:
1.
System drive (e.g. C
:)
with the Windows 10 operating system installed (can be SATA or NVMe)
2.
Data drive (e.g. D:) to be accelerated
3.
Intel® Optane™ memory module
Note:
Data drives must still be formatted with a GPT partition and Type Basic.
Enable/Disable Acceleration
The process to Enable/Disable acceleration (Section 5) continue to apply to DDA and the specific data drive being
accelerated.
Note:
When selecting a drive for acceleration, the supported System drive that contains the operating system will
have “(System)” at the end of the selection. Additional drives available for DDA in the system will not have
this in the name.
