Solved Is my laptop supposed to have the OS on the SSD?

Ekansh

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I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15z Ultrabook which had Windows 8 (I upgraded it to Windows 8.1) preloaded into it, but on the HDD, not the SSD. It has a 30 GB SSD partition, out of which 29.6 GB is empty. Are laptops supposed to be shipped like that? I mean, isn't the operating system supposed to be on the SDD partition? Are the laptops being shipped incorrectly by the manufacturers? If yes, then is there a way to 'Migrate' my OS to the SSD portion? If not, then what is the purpose of this small 30 GB SSD partition? I know they are supposed to be fast, but also have limited write-cycles, so am I supposed to store programs on it, or what? I know it's a lot of questions, but please help...
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
It's a "Hybrid" disk, the SSD part is there just to Cache data until it's written to hard disk and so speed up the HDD. That's why it's so small. Nothing else to do here.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen7 2700x
    Motherboard
    Asus Prime x470 Pro
    Memory
    16GB Kingston 3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 960 evo 250GB
    Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
    WD 1 TB Blue
    WD 2 TB Blue
    Bunch of backup HDDs.
    PSU
    Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
    Case
    Raidmax
    Cooling
    CCM Nepton 140xl
    Internet Speed
    40/2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    WD
It appears most of the Dell Ultrabooks ship with a 32 GB SSD.

There is another thread here where someone asked the same question, so you might check it out.

I would say the SSD was there to be used as an acceleration cache for the HDD. Some suggest using it as an OS drive, but I do not agree.

http://www.eightforums.com/drivers-hardware/40309-use-msata.html
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Grown
    CPU
    i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z77 -v Pro, Z87-Expert
    Memory
    16 G
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GTX 680 Classified (2)
    Hard Drives
    Kingston SSD 240 GB
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