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Reformat intell optane to be boot drive?

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By BoisterousCoder
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I was looking at buying the GS63VR. I am already going to replace the existing hard drive, and install my own SSD in the other drive bay, but I thought I might be able to use the m.2 port the install an Intel Optane SSD.  However, I since I know Intel Optane won't help an SSD, I was wondering if I could reformat it the Intel Optane to act as my boot device. Also, is it worth the cost? I do not want to spend the money on a larger m.2 SSD since I already have a SATA SSD. I just want an m.2 SSD that is just big enough to boot from.

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It is not possible to use Optane as a standalone storage device.

 

You need to wait for the actual Optane storage SSDs.

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Yeah unless there has been some sort of hack figured out that I'm unaware of, it can't be done.

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@Enderman @Ryan_Vickers : That was a good one ;D

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@OP You need Windows 10 x64 for it to work (it will work from default M$ NVMe driver).

As for booting, that depends on UEFI.

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