• ×
    Information
    Windows update impacting certain printer icons and names. Microsoft is working on a solution.
    Click here to learn more
    Information
    Need Windows 11 help?
    Check documents on compatibility, FAQs, upgrade information and available fixes.
    Windows 11 Support Center.
  • post a message
  • ×
    Information
    Windows update impacting certain printer icons and names. Microsoft is working on a solution.
    Click here to learn more
    Information
    Need Windows 11 help?
    Check documents on compatibility, FAQs, upgrade information and available fixes.
    Windows 11 Support Center.
  • post a message
Guidelines
Any failures related to Hotkey UWP service? Click here for tips.
HP Recommended
Pavilion 590-pOxxx
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

My new HP Pavilion has an SSD and an HDD. The HDD is the 1TB and the SSD is 240GB. When I brought it I thought the SSD was just extra storage. I thought the 1TB HDD would be drive C, with the SSD being drive D. The way it is the SSD is in drive C and is filling with data just like the C drive would do with a single drive. Are these drives in backwards? It is the first time I've had a dual drive, Is there a new special way these drives share and they are installed properly?

3 REPLIES 3
HP Recommended

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

 

The smaller SSD is faster. HP installs the operating system on this drive to improve performance. All of the bits for each program you install are stored on the SSD. Everything you download and temp files are stored on the smaller SSD.

 

This configuration can work if you install large programs and store data on the HDD.

 

This setup will cause storage problems if you store everything on the SSD.

 

Regards.

HP Recommended

So I found in the system that everything was set to save on drive C the SSD and I changed them all to save on drive D the 1TB HDD. Is this OK? I'm not worried about space and if the operating system runs on the SSD, will that still be OK? Sounds like it should run faster with less on that drive anyway.

HP Recommended

Hi GB56,

 

Yes. Saving stuff on the larger HDD is good.

 

You should not have space problems unless you install many, very large, programs on the SSD.

 

SSDs are very fast until you saturate the disk. 

 

Regards

† The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of HP. By using this site, you accept the <a href="https://www8.hp.com/us/en/terms-of-use.html" class="udrlinesmall">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="/t5/custom/page/page-id/hp.rulespage" class="udrlinesmall"> Rules of Participation</a>.