I recently purchased a
refurbished Dell 2710 from the Dell outlet, with I7 core processor,
2Tb HDD and 32Gb SSD.
My problem is that the
SSD drive does not appear to be utilised as nothing is ever written
to it and no speed improvements are being gained from it.
The bios settings show
the SATA mode set to Raid mode in advanced settings but if I load the
legacy OPROM and press Ctrl I to access Intel RST during boot then
the HDD and SSD are shown as non RAID. If I opted to create a raid
volume then it says all data will be lost.
Am I right in thinking
that a Raid volume should have been created before software
re-installation at the factory, assuming it had cleaned down as it is
a pre used model or am I missing something about the use of the SSD
drive in this model.
If I do have to create
a RAID volume will a set of Dell recovery discs re-install Win 8 pro
and all drivers or am I going to find myself with a nice looking but
un-bootable box.
Any assistance would be
much appreciated.