With powerspec 1530, cannot enable intel optane storage

bonesetter

Just bought the laptop today, and from bios if I enable intel optane, I am told that it cannot boot properly on a blue screen of death as there is no connected hard drive. I then downloaded the RST tray and had it update, made sure I ran windows 10 update, and had the intel driver support tool state that everything is up to date. The RST tool tells me that the SSD within this computer doesn't support optane (western digital appears to state it does), and I still get the same issue if selecting the intel optane option in bios. How can I proceed so that it is enabled?

SlowRoddo

Intel Optane is the drive itself. So if you have a WD SSD in the laptop now and no Optane installed in the other NVME slot. I don't think you can enable Optane, since you don't have Optane installed.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-optane-technology.html

TSTonyV

SlowRoddo is correct, while the 1530 can support Optane, you have to specifically have an Optane drive installed in order to enable it and use it. 

I'm not sure that should cause issues with crashing if you try to turn it on, but you won't be able to turn on Optane with the stock configuration on the 1530 since it has a standard NVMe M.2 drive.