Optane H10 on Intel i7 7th gen Predator?

SH4D0WBROK3R optane memory (the normal before intel merged it in the H10) cannot be used as storage and will use one m.2 slots its a waste of money it was a cheaper way to make normal hdds faster whne the ssds were too expensive these days no one use it anymore it was a badly failed intel technology its simply dead even to accelerate hdds or server racks now they use a nvme ssd or some even use a 2.5" ssd to cache only do do exactly what optane was designed to at a much lower price and much more memory size to use i have seen linus use a 8tb 2.5 ssd drive used as cache for the storinators they have for faster access to the hdds nothing else the optane its memory alone (same happens if you use a full drive as cache only) its not readable only acts as a cache memory and thats about it it stops being a drive when properly configured as cache acting exactly the same way as the ram.

Yes @egydiocoelho is  completely correct about the H10 and what it does but this was also again one more kinda useless attempt to salvage the previous failure and for all the money they spent on R&D and to push ppl to use their proprietary optane memory merged with a drive because their optane memory alone was a huge market failure before so they had to try something different to try to save their optane brand (but at which cost?).

My personal view in all of this for starters its not worth high the price intel slaps on it might as well get a wdblue m.2 2tb ssd much cheaper than a H10 512gb and about the same price of the 1tb version also its more than enough for normal daily usage/gaming or for those who do rendering/content creation should get nvme instead even getting nvme its even cheaper intel always had higher prices than everyone else when it comes to drives they probably think they are the best in everything (a bit like apple youre just paying for the logo on it) but they are wrong i wouldnt buy any overpriced drives from them just because they are intel branded not really worth it  even 1tb of wd blue sn550 nvme its half price of a 1tb H10 optane  and the speeds are exactly the same if not even better anyway this is only my personal comparison and view everyone is free to spend their money in whatever they feel like to but the facts proof that spending money on optane H10 its not really a good investment when much more options and cheaper are available these days 

PS: If you really want to see what u have its not the dx diagnostic page that will show you the hardware theres nothing there regarding your hardware at all (thats only the minimum info about your os/ram etc ) use hwinfo thats the proper way to see exactly all the hardware you have

SH4D0WBROK3R yes its a ssd m.2 drive with a optane cache chip but as i said not worth the money if you do your comparisons with the actually  existing drives either sata/nvme on the market now some are even faster and cheaper than the H10 its just overpriced as all intel hardware

Also normal optane its not a drive its just a single cache chip used mainly in the old days to cache and speed up normal hdds (this was a cheap option for manufacturers to ship laptops with hdds only) but not very viable thats why mainly all of them gave up on it not profitable neither has today's ssd speeds

SH4D0WBROK3R the compatibility should work without any issues and regarding retrieving the data its normal as any other drive but only from the drive space itself the optane chipset storage size its not accessible as it only serves to cache but as i said yeah works same as a normal drive regarding data storage after all its a pcie 3.0 should work fine on 7th gen too as 7th gen also supports nvme hope it helps in any way

Another thing you can try for data retrieval would be getting a m.2 usb adapter (the  drive as a whole has a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface but each of the two SSD controllers gets just two PCIe lanes) so according to this it works as a pcie 3.0 x2  which technically should work fine on any m.2 usb adapter would make life much easier to backup any files from the drive without having to disassemble the laptop in order to use it internally thats exactly how i cloned my stock m.2 128gb ssd into my new 2tb got a dual 2.5" sata enclosure adapter (just because i can use 2 m.2 drives as storage if i need to) and can boot the stock drive from a sata usb adapter or even a dock without having to use it internally here are some good options from startech i have the 25S22M2NGFFR

https://www.startech.com/Search?search_term=m.2+adapter