What motherboard?*
The key is a hardware key that physically plugs into your MOBO giving you the ability to use several Raid modes other than raid0 that can be done without a key on eligible X299 MOBOs.
If you bought an intel optane non volitile memory stick it can only be used as a cache for drives that the primary OS is installed on and is useless for anything other than when you have your OS installed on a spinner. In other words just plain useless. By the time you buy the spinner and the optane stick you have pretty much paid for a 500 GB 860 pro SSD. The only improve spinners for snappiness when loading apps etc. as soon as the cache is saturated the performance is actually worse than not having the optane stick.
Intel 900P and 905P drives are also called optane but they are actually drives that can be put into a VROC array as VROC is limited to intel drives only. *
The key is a hardware key that physically plugs into your MOBO giving you the ability to use several Raid modes other than raid0 that can be done without a key on eligible X299 MOBOs.
If you bought an intel optane non volitile memory stick it can only be used as a cache for drives that the primary OS is installed on and is useless for anything other than when you have your OS installed on a spinner. In other words just plain useless. By the time you buy the spinner and the optane stick you have pretty much paid for a 500 GB 860 pro SSD. The only improve spinners for snappiness when loading apps etc. as soon as the cache is saturated the performance is actually worse than not having the optane stick.
Intel 900P and 905P drives are also called optane but they are actually drives that can be put into a VROC array as VROC is limited to intel drives only. *
