Intel® Optane - Clevo N350TW Concise User Manual

Intel® Optane™
Intel® Optane™ is a combination of a compatible mem-
ory device and Intel Rapid Storage Technology soft-
ware. This combination is designed to speed up your
system performance by caching boot data, executables,
frequently accessed data and system page files to a non
volatile, low latency Intel® Optane™ SSD.
Contact your distributor or supplier to see if your system
supports this technology.
If you are reinstalling a system that has previously been
setup in RAID Mode, make sure you have disabled the In-
tel Optane Memory (see Disabling Intel® Optane™ on
page 6).
Intel® Optane™ Setup
You need to setup Intel Optane™ before installing your
®
Windows 10 operating system, and you will need to pre-
pare the following in order to do so.
• The Microsoft Windows 10 OS DVD.
• An Intel® Optane™ SSD installed in your system.
• The Device Drivers & Utilities + User's Manual disc.
1. Start-up your notebook computer and press F2 to enter the
BIOS.
2. Go to the Boot menu, select UEFI Setting and press Enter.
3. Set UEFI Boot to "Enabled".
4. Press Esc to exit the menu and go to the Main menu.
5. Select OffBoard NVMe Controller Configuration and press
Enter to check that an Intel® Optane™ SSD is present.
6. Press Esc to exit the menu and go to the Advanced menu.
7. Select SATA Mode, press Enter and select RAID Mode.
8. Select "Save and Exit", however ensure that the condition in
the bulleted point below is met before doing so.
• Make sure the Windows 10 OS DVD is in the DVD drive, as
the computer starts up it will automatically boot from the Win-
dows 10 OS DVD (you will be prompted to press a key to boot
from the DVD).
9. Click Next > Install Now to continue installing the operating
system as normal (see your Windows documentation if you
need help on installing the Windows OS).
10. Select Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).
11. It is recommended that you select and then delete existing
partitions.
12. Click New to create a partition for Windows.
13. It is very important to make sure that when you create the
partition, leave at least a minimum of unallocated space of 5MB.
14. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the Windows 10
operating system.
15. Install the Windows drivers (see
the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) driver.
16. Run the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology application.
page 19). Make sure you install
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