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January 2nd, 2017 20:00
XPS 15, 2016 - BIOS update made Defrag Detects RAID-0 HDD as SSD.
Guys,
My laptop came with RAID-0 by default in bios. I have 1 TB hard drive (HTS541010A7E630).
Not sure if somebody has noticed that but after the latest bios update for my XPS 15 with 1TB hard drive, defrag on Windows 10 64bit detects RAID-0 HDD as SSD now!!!
That forbids me to optimize my drive or run defragmentation. I also noticed it actually slowed down my XP 15 significantly since that update.
Dell, please confirm, advice and help.
Thanks.
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ejn63
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January 3rd, 2017 03:00
If the system has a small SSD, it's used for caching the main drive -- hence the appearance of RAID 0. It is correct that you SHOULD NOT defragment a setup using Intel's rapid storage driver.
pit_ns
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January 3rd, 2017 09:00
Since 1TB of it is a hard drive (yeah small 30gb ssd), how do i defrag it to make it faster?
Is Intel's rapid storage driver doing it on its own?
I would rather have just hdd instead of those hybrid drives, i somehow feel it is more of a headache than real improvement.
Plus easier to update.
Thanks.
ejn63
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January 3rd, 2017 13:00
If that's the case, disable IRST completely and you can then defrag the hard drive. The SSD takes care of caching frequently-used data - defragmeting the drive isn't necessary (the IRST driver handles everything).
You will lose some performance by disabling the cache -- though there's still a huge performance difference between a native SSD and a cached spinning hard drive.