32GB SSD not doing it's job after clean install and factory reset of Windows 10?

[Taranjeet]

I have a Dell Inspiron 7459 with a 1TB HDD and a 32GB SSD as a cache drive for faster boot times and quicker application load up times, unfortunately this has now not been happening ever since I factory reset this PC back to it's original state. This was done yesterday.

Yesterday I attempted to factory reset my PC but it failed with saying 'There was a problem resetting this PC, no changes were made' and then couldn't boot to Windows. So I did a clean install of Windows 10 and had these following named partitions: recovery, image, OS, partition 1, the only one that was available to install windows 10 on was the OS partition so I continued with that and successfully installed and booted fine. After this clean install I tried the factory reset again like before and did that successfully too, but after doing all this the PC boots slow like it has no SSD in there, the bootup times and the startup application times are just not the same anymore.

The 32GB SSD was configured to be a cache drive but on the rapid storage technology control panel it says that the cache is enabled for it but the PC still boots slow and applications still start up too slow, can anyone help me?

It used to boot so fast before but now It doesn't, did I do something wrong when doing the clean install like what partition I chose?

Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

The cache system takes a few days to sort itself out, and put the 'most used files' on the SSD.
It will be slow initially. Give it a few days.

 

[Taranjeet]

The cache system takes a few days to sort itself out, and put the 'most used files' on the SSD.
It will be slow initially. Give it a few days.

Oh so I didn't do anything wrong? It will sort everything out by itself?

 

[USAFRet]

The cache system takes a few days to sort itself out, and put the 'most used files' on the SSD.
It will be slow initially. Give it a few days.

Oh so I didn't do anything wrong? It will sort everything out by itself?

Well, I don't know the exact steps you did.
But yes, it will probably work itself out over the next couple of days.

 

[Taranjeet]

The cache system takes a few days to sort itself out, and put the 'most used files' on the SSD.
It will be slow initially. Give it a few days.

Oh so I didn't do anything wrong? It will sort everything out by itself?

Well, I don't know the exact steps you did.
But yes, it will probably work itself out over the next couple of days.

Ok I'll give it a few days and I'll inform you if the performance has improved or not. Thank you for giving me the answer straight away I posted this thread!

 

[Kurz]

For my clients we remove the 32GB SSD cache and just replace their whole drive with an SSD.
(The Cache in what we see causes corruption of the drive where both the data on the cache and the Drive itself gets majorly F'd)
Manufacturers must've seen the higher failure rates because they don't use these cache drives any more.

They rather just put in a Regular Drive, SSHD or a SSD of some sort now.

 

[Taranjeet]

For my clients we remove the 32GB SSD cache and just replace their whole drive with an SSD.
(The Cache in what we see causes corruption of the drive where both the data on the cache and the Drive itself gets majorly F'd)
Manufacturers must've seen the higher failure rates because they don't use these cache drives any more.

They rather just put in a Regular Drive, SSHD or a SSD of some sort now.

But I can't do that, it's still under warranty.

 

[Taranjeet]

The cache system takes a few days to sort itself out, and put the 'most used files' on the SSD.
It will be slow initially. Give it a few days.

Oh so I didn't do anything wrong? It will sort everything out by itself?

Well, I don't know the exact steps you did.
But yes, it will probably work itself out over the next couple of days.

I've given it a few days now but the performance has still not improved, any other suggestions?

 

[Taranjeet]

Anymore solutions? It's been 4 days now and still no improvement.

Now when it boots up, it flashes a white screen for 2 seconds before the windows logon screen then boots normally.

 

[USAFRet]

Anymore solutions? It's been 4 days now and still no improvement.

Now when it boots up, it flashes a white screen for 2 seconds before the windows logon screen then boots normally.

Sorry, no further ideas.

 

[tsnor]

Enabling Intel Smart Response Technology
Run the Intel RST software through the All Programs menu or the task bar icon.
Click Enable acceleration under either the Status or Accelerate menu.
Select the SSD to be used as a cache device.
Select the size from the SSD to be allocated for the cache memory. etc.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000005501.html

Likely the recovery did not set up the SSD as a cache. Using the reference above you can display status to see if it's just slowly getting back to being a good cache or if caching is not turned on on that drive.

 

[Taranjeet]

Thank you tsnor, your solution helped me and my PC now boots much faster.