topic Re: Opane H10 separate memory/NAND devices under Linux in Intel® Optane™ Memory

Opane H10 separate memory/NAND devices under Linux

parkan — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:33:41 GMT

I was able to source some 256GB H10 at a good price with the intent of using them in my NAS (TrueNAS Scale). The intention was to use the 16G 3D Xpoint segment as a ZFS ZLOG (as the performance characteristics, durability, and size perfectly match TrueNAS recommendations) and the "normal" SSD segment as a scratch drive for containers. The system does not have a chipset compatible with RST.

Reports of how the drive would be reported under Linux (Debian, kernel 6.6.44 in my case) differed but a majority stated that the two segments would be presented as separate block devices, which is exactly what I want. However, after receiving the drive (open box, may have been installed an initialized) it reports as a single 238.47 GiB volume and a single PCIe device:

```
05:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Intel Corporation Optane NVME SSD H10 with Solid State Storage [Teton Glacier] (rev 03)
```

After a bit of research I found indication that using an Intel management utility might allow me to alter the presented layout (to the best of my understanding this means it would disable any internal RST on the drive), however upon booting into some WinPE images I was not able to run either setupoptanememory (complains that chipset has no support) or MAS gui/cli (missing DLLs).

I understand that "proper" optane usage is only supported under Win10+ with compatible drivers etc. However there are many user reports of successful use in the pattern I describe. Is there any way for me to change the controller configuration such that I'd be able to access both extents?

Re:Opane H10 separate memory/NAND devices under Linux

ManoranjanDas — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:25:22 GMT

Hello AlexBG,

Greetings for the day!

Thank you for trusting Intel with your business. As with all good things, your product has reached the end of its interactive technical support life. However, you can find Intel® Optane™ Memory H10 with Solid State Storage recommendations at the Intel Community Forums and additional information on the discontinued product website. It is our pleasure to continue to serve you with the next generation of Intel innovation at Intel.com.

For more details, please refer to the support page: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000024320/memory-and-storage.html

Thank you for using Intel products and services.

Best Regards,

Manoranjan.

Intel Customer Support Technician.

Re: Opane H10 separate memory/NAND devices under Linux

parkan — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:27:21 GMT

thanks, I am not AlexBG, I know the product is technically EoL, and that is exactly why I am asking here, on the community forum, rather than through official support channels