Installation Manual

3. Slow media (disk to be accelerated): Only a single pass-through disk that is the active

system/boot drive can be accelerated. The acceleration of RAID volumes or other multiple

disk configurations is not supported. Please see below for supported slow media options.

 SATA HDD – single pass-through

 SATA SSD - single pass-through

 SSHD - single pass-through

4. Optane™ Memory volume

 Only one Optane Memory volume per system. If more than one volume is

detected during boot, the second volume will be placed offline.

1.2.2 Software/Firmware

1. UEFI-compliant system BIOS that includes the Intel

RST pre-OS UEFI driver version

15.5.0.2875 release or later.

2. Intel BIOS SATA controller mode set to “Intel

RST…” with remapping enabled on the PCIe

slot connecting the Intel

Optane™ technology NVMe SSD/memory module

3. Intel

RST Windows runtime driver version 15.5.0.1051 release or later

1.2.3 Operating System

Microsoft Windows 10 x64 bit Editions or newer operating system installed to a GPT partition

on a slow media device (SSD/SSHD/HDD)

1. Ensure the system BIOS is in UEFI mode with CSM disabled before installing the operating

system.

2. When installing the Windows OS, make sure to leave an “Unallocated” space with a

minimum of 5MB at the end of the disk (max LBA).