thanks! There is a disk clone utility by Intel that seems excellent mentioned in another thread.ps: If you do decide to clone your c drive remember to first run disk cleanup delete all temp files from c:\windows\temp and C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Temp (hidden) and delete all your temporary internet files from your browsers
Do you use any adapter for the Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB disk? I mean.., because usually for laptop drives, you should need something like this to place it internally in your PC:From my experience using readyboost many years ago, i think windows 7 era. The performance improvement for launching small apps like office is more significant than games. Actually, i dont remember my games loads any faster with ready boost. But it was using a USB flash disk tho. hahaha.
Btw, yeah, agree with @Davros. Cloning C drive is easy and will give a huge, and noticable perf boost (even for opening START). It could take hours. When i cloned my almost full 1 TB SHDD (super slow out-of-cache read speed, under 100 MB/s sustained) to 1 TB nvme, it took ~10 hours. because the first 5 hours Macrium suddenly failed. I manually set the "Shadow copy" storage to 50GB, and the next 5 hours works awesome.
EDIT:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/24250757
yeah, my SSHD is slow. only 60MB/s for "mixed" stuff. While my drive was filled with tons of small stuff from Android Studio projects, IIRC it even goes down to 40MB/s for quite some time.
but your HDD goes under 30MB/s... the clone process may take quite awhile... depending on how full and how many tiny files you got.
or a USB adapter: