MSI Pro Cast#14 –Intel® Optane™ Memory Tutorial for Beginners | Gaming Motherboard | MSI

MSI Pro Cast features unboxings, tutorials, how-to and tips from MSI tech professional. In this tutorial, Richard gives a comprehensive overview of how Intel® Optane™ Memory with MSI Optane Genie boosts your PC speeds affordably. MSI OPT BOOST motherboards featuring pre-installed Intel® Optane™ Memory are the best option to speed up your HDD without the hassle!

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Testing conducted with Seagate BarraCuda 3.5-Inch Hard Drives. Results may vary based on different system hardware, software and configuration. Seagate BarraCuda paired with Intel Optane memory delivers amazing SSD-like performance and
responsiveness without compromising capacity or value.

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[Bronze]

Thank you MSI - very informative! I really need to start watching more of you guys. Double thumbs-up!

[johnfroh]

My system was in AHCI mode before I got Optane. Is it possible to switch an existing system over from AHCI to Raid/Optane without destroying the data on the drives? Additionally, I have two non OS storage drives in a RAID 1 setup using Window's built in RAID controllers. How will switching over to RAID mode affect those drives?

[mariusm]

Thank you MSI for the useful tutorial .Greetings from Romania !!

[qwikvrgti]

Thanks for the clarification. I was not sure if it worked on a 7th Gen I5 Processor, but looks like I'm good.

[deviousxen]

How do you know which is best for your motherboard?

Or are they all the same model?

I just wanna get the best module for my MSI

[MortezaParkook]

Thanks, my windows 11 on SSD Evo850 is working fine but as soon as I enable the optane in bios I get blue screen and restarts to blue screen and repair with no luck. But it all works again when I disable it.
I cloned my ssd to WD_black sn850 M2 card and still same issue. Even though I have already updated bios and M2 to latest firmware.

What am I doing wrong?

[tzvetantzvetanov]

Intel 900P Optane NVMe PCIe 480GB was thinking to buy this for my MSI Z270 M7 Gaming MB! with a I7-7700k

[djruido]

We definitely need more steps intel put on their video. You guys are definitely not making things easier. I wish it was complete. Once the genie it’s enabled and saved it doesn’t boot and windows won’t load you have to have bootable iso

[sr-fwxk]

Just got a MSI Gaming Force and got the Optane 16gb+1TB . Is it recommended i use that 1TB to install Windows 11, or should i just install windows on my 3.5'' 4Tb HDD to get the best performance? thanks

[leightaylor]

"As you can see, it has two M.2 Slots. You can pick any of them for your Intel Optane drive. However, we recommend the first slot."

Humph!!!!

I've spent ages debugging why Optane on an MSI B360M Mortar wouldn't work at all. Turns out you have to put it in the SECOND slot - M.2_2. Doesn't work in M.2_1.

Would have been helpful if the manual had said this, and this video didn't help in that regard.

[dennismariquit]

HELP ME IDK WHAT HAPPEN WHEN I ENABLE THAT "GENIE" i can't boot my WINDOWS PLEASE HELP
I have B250 Gaming M3 to its latest BIOS

[oldinsidebella]

Hi dears! My sistem is ready for Intel Optane but does not recognize any M.2 Optane Module. Swapped to UEFI, updated BIOS, Optane Mode, Optane Genie, RST Intel driver updated...I'm using an MSI B250M Bazooka motherboard. Thanks...

[Chemy.]

Nice video as always and great Mother boards as always too, I wonder how different is this to the hybrid hard drives from Seagate

[DIRA_StaleDevil]

was just messing around with my new MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus motherboard with 2x M.2 NVMe PCI disks.
just a clean setup nothing really special, but there is a problem with the mentioned feature.

So when by default the NVMe disks are marked as bootable adrives enabled in AHCI mode or RAID mode (unconfigured).

however once I enabled the MSI Optane Genie for M.2 this magically removes the NVMe PCI disks as no longer being bootable even after i've manually configured a RAID array (R0 or R1 doesn't matter). which is a problem because you cannot install an OS if the disk isn't marked by the BIOS firmware as a bootable device.
Even when you use the Hardware Monitor feature the Optane makes it so to trick the motherboard that there is no longer a 2nd NVMe disk inserted and then just makes 1 NMVe drives and markes it as remapping device, but under boot options it's no longer to be used.

so for now i'll just use AHCI mode

[marksmales]

I have a MSi tomahawk wifi 11gen Intel i7 ...I bought a intel H10 256gb 16gb optane memory...I have tried what you said but my system keeps crashing saying inaccessible drive.
The intel optane memory storage manager says No supported controller found.

What do I do?

[sayounlimited]

I want to reset my HDD back to non optane will I lose my data?

[snehashisroy]

Hey please recommend a x199 motherboard with Intel optane support for my next build. And btw MSI your motherboards and graphics cards are pretty darn good. I am having your tomahawk motherboard in my previous three builds along with your gtx1080 ti. Good job.

[crushcrush]

hi MSI i have an msi b450 gaming plus motherboard an cpu rysen5 1600
with my gpu msi rx 480 8 gb gaming x do you know if will it boot from
first time with no problems without update? please answer

[pipikakachu]

If I have an SSD (with Windows installed) and a couple of HDD ( with my data). When I enable optane, will it erase my data.

[pavansai]

Sir, Intel optane support for B250M PRO-VDH motherboard ?