Rapid Storage Technology

Question

Hi Guys,

I have a question about Rapid Storage Technology. I have an XPS 8700 which I'm very happy with I have Windows 10 insalled and no major issues with it but after the 1511 update the PC started complaining that the file history drive had been disconnected for too long, as I was resetting it I realised that the drive it had been assigned to was D: the 32GB SSD. Anyway File History has now stopped whining but I started to wonder why it was using the SSD.

While investigating through Google I got the distinct impression that if Rapid Storage Technology was working correctly then the SSD would not be available for general use. The Rapid Storage Technology console says that its working fine ... but is it ? I can access and write to the SSD and the drives seem to be set up as SATA.

So is it really working fine ... I was under the impression that Rapid Storage Technology only worked on RAID set up's so is it working "fine" but not as intended .. shouldnt the SSD be off limits... something just doesnt ring true to me here.

Any advise / explanation would be great.

A little confused

Steve

steve6386 · Accepted Answer

Hi Folks,

It seems that I was correct... Intel's Rapid Storage Technology was not functioning as intended, it was not accelerating anything at all. My SSD was performing the role of a plain disk drive.

I now have it set up for max acceleration and all is well.

Regards

Steve

steve6386 · Answer

No answer so I take it from that, that no one on the Dell community support forums knows how Rapid Storage Technology is supposed to work ?

Thats quite an eye opener and great going for a computer manufacturers forums.

osprey4 · Answer

Hi Steve, Sorry your original post was missed. Glad to hear you fixed it, and thanks for posting the solution.

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