Installation Manual

Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drive 900P Series
Installation Guide October 2017
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1 Overview
This guide describes how to install the Windows* operating system into the Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P Series, as a
bootable medium in the computing platform.
Note: Datacenter usage, workloads or environments are not supported and will invalidate the warranty for the
Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P Series.
The information in this document is intended to assist in the setup and preparation of the Intel® Optane™ SSD as
the primary boot device, not a secondary storage device.
The Intel® Optane™ SSD 900P Series utilizes the PCIe* NVMe* interface. NVMe is a scalable non-volatile memory
host interface that can help increase efficiency and reduce latency, while delivering high speed access to storage
media connected through the PCIe bus, thus resulting in increased overall bandwidth. This high bandwidth bus
technology is a data transport feature that has become an industry standard for a wide range of motherboard
vendors today.
Table 1: Terminology
Abbreviation
Term
Definition
CSM
Compatibility Support Module
A UEFI firmware feature that enables legacy BIOS-style
booting by emulating a BIOS environment.
NVMe
Non-Volatile Memory Express
The next-generation specification used to access SSDs
through the PCI Express* bus.
PCIe
Peripheral Component
Interconnect Express
A standard connection found on most systems that
supports the high speed of the NVMe SSD.
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface
A specification for system firmware, meant to replace
legacy BIOS, that provides software layer between the
operating system and the system firmware.
Table 2: References
Document
Location
NVMe Specification 1.0
http://nvmexpress.org/resources/specifications/
UEFI Specification
http://uefi.org/specifications