I believe 'Optane' memory requires M slot. Would adding a pcie SSD, be wasteful or super fast? Bang for buck?
IMO I tried a brand new Alienware 17R4 which had a PCIe NVM SSD but I didn't find any faster than my 3 year old Alienware 17R2 and to me it's because there both 4 Core CPU's and again to me the CPU is the new bottleneck per say so I will wait until they start releasing 6 or 8 core Laptop CPU's. https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-14nm-coffee-lake-release-date https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_8700hq-835-vs-intel_core_i7_7700hq-690
I've read the new AMD CPU's are much faster than, Intel & gamers could skip fancy GPU's. Geez! used to be hdd was the slow poke, times have changed
Rico, Let's see which Recovery Partition is in use... At an Admin Command Prompt enter reagentc /info Can you paste the output into a post? At an Admin Command Prompt enter diskpart select disk 0 list par Can you paste the output into a post?
Rico, the Recovery partition in use is partition6, the 450 MB partition. So you certainly need that one. It contains WinRE.wim. The 750 MB partition was present before the clone... https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/macrium-reflect.356309/page-253#post-2737855 It is a partition created by Dell. It's no longer in use so could be deleted. The 40 MB partition is the Dell diagnostic partition. It's worth keeping. Partition3 is the MSR which doesn't show in Disk Management.
Rico, the next question is what do you do with the new 750 MB of Free Space. You can just leave it there or you can slide the Win10 partition to the left and then resize the Win10 partition 750 MB larger. But you can't do this with Disk Management. If you aren't comfortable with sliding partitions then just leave the Free Space alone. Edit... I know you don't have TBOSDT Pro but to demonstrate its usefulness you could do the above from a command line... slide 0 0x05 0 /a=2048 resize 0 0x05 /a=2048
"Optane" is Intel's trademarked name for this new type of memory "module". It really has nothing to do with the required interface - and as seen here, is also available PCIe format. It could, in theory, be packaged with the SATA interface, but SATA's slower bandwidth restrictions would be a bottleneck.
