Windows 10: optane and HDD

curiouser and curiouser , I was looking over hardware info on my hp
and can't find info on the 1 T Hdd (spinner) which is in raid formation
with the Optane. all info programs, (speccy, Belarc advisor, Cpuid,
Systeminfo, Device manager and Disk management) all show up as
Intel Optane+932gbhdd16.8. No Info on the hdd itself.
I guess I could disable optane to see what the hdd is (seagate, wd, whatever).
but it just seems weird That you can't get the info the lazy way.

:)

 

Macrium and Optane

So far I have created an image when normally booted, normally functioning Optane and used it without any problem. Have not tried it with the boot disk yet.

 

Macrium and Optane


Confusion persists here:
Forums

Whilst this suggests success restoring with Optane driver in an Acronis boot disk:
Restoring Intel Optane + HDD to a new drive in ATI 2016 | Acronis Forum

Yet I can see what the Macrium guy is getting at- the memory is just a cache- and its presence does not influence the content of the HDD.

I'd suggest an experiment or two is in order. For example, can you create an image when normally booted, normally functioning Optane, and then mount that image and explore it successfully?

Then try restoring it, both in normal mode (assuming data disk only) and using the boot disk.

 

Macrium and Optane

OK, I restored it from from normal mode just fine. But it would not restore using boot disk - I just tried it and found out to my dismay. Luckily I had a Windows restore point, which did work. So now I know. I'm not particularly happy with this setup, but it's my fault for not checking further before buying!