I recently received a XPS 8900 with a 256GB SSD and a 2 TD HDD. On arrival the HDD wasn't visible to the operating system. This was resolved after assistance from the Dell technical team.
After resolution, the SSD and the HDD are totally independent with the SSD being the system disk.
Does anyone know whether this is the standard ex-factory configuration of these drives?
I was anticipating that the default configuration of the drives would be that the SSD drive (or at least a 64GB partition on it) on it would be configured to accelerate the HDD through the Intel Rapid Storage Technology application. I understood that this was what was meant by Dell's advertising statement
The cache dynamically recognizes and automatically stores your most frequently used applications and files from your hard drive on a compact and fast solid state drive. Get ultra-fast access to your favorite applications and files automatically with 32GB or 256GB capacitates.
Dell support appears unsure or confused as to how the machine should have shipped and whether the current configuration is standard with a 256GB SSD or a result of the initial problem.
I'd be grateful if anyone with the same machine would let me know how their machine was configured on arrival.
Thanks,
Robin