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OA47

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Posted: 02:03am 06 Dec 2018

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Thought I would throw this one out there as trawling the net has not come up with any clues. I have an HP desktop that when purchased was configured with i7-3.4Ghz, 16Gb SSD (on mainboard), 3TB HDD and Windows 8. I decided to give it a bit of an update and installed a 256Gb SSD and windows 10. The previous Windows eight must have had some sort of software driver to utilise the 16GB SSD as a cache between the CPU and HDD. I thought when I installed windows 10, I would dedicate the 16GB ssd drive to ReadyBoost for the system but Windows will not utilise it as it feels that the OS SSD is fast enough. I don't like seeing the hardware not being utilised to its maximum potential so other than using it solely for a swap file has anyone got any suggestions of how it can be configured?

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Posted: 04:54am 06 Dec 2018

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Yeah, I have had the same message from Windoze the first time I tried to use Readyboost with a system equipped with an SSD. Windows told me that I was wasting my time, as the system drive is so fast, that you are not gaining anything with Readyboost. I can see that, so fair enough.

Was the previous Windows 8 not installed on the 16GB on-board SSD then?

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OA47

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Posted: 05:17am 06 Dec 2018

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Quote Was the previous Windows 8 not installed on the 16GB on-board SSD then?

I don't believe that the Win 8 OS was installed on the 16Gb drive. If it was it would have been a customer nightmare with users filling it every day.

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