On 12/05/2021 09:01, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just bought myself a new/refurbished laptop, which is supposed to
have an Intel Optane HDD system. Optane is a 16Gb SSD buffer/ 1Gb HDD.
It shows in Control Panel as an Optane + HDD.

Reading up on Optane, it needs to have drivers and utilities, but I
cannot find any mention of them on the system at all. There is an empty
Intel folder in the root of C:.

I had an Intel 32GB SSD cache on my machine and ISTR it requires a
custom RAID 1 like configuration. You should be able to find the right
drivers on the Intel site. It was the first thing to go wrong on that
computer and one day it was so stone dead that no utilities would even
recognise it as a disk - not Intel's and not even bare metal ones.

The laptop seems fast, much faster than my old one, so I have nothing to
compare with. How can I check and be sure the Optane is configured and
being used?

I think it should show up in System Devices.
Intel have utilities for their cache drives. Become much less relevant
now that large SSDs are affordable.

https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/...ne-memory.html

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Regards,
Martin Brown