Win 10 on Imac I7 is sloooow

[PickyBiker]

I setup bootcamp on my new iMac core i7 with 8gb memory and a 1TB Fusion drive. Win 10 works on this setup but it is unbelievably slow. I used the latest win 10 from Microsoft and applied all the updates. It can take up to 30 seconds to load Chrome and much longer to load large applications. 2 minutes and 12 seconds to load Visual Studio 2017 community edition. The bootcamp partition has more than 100GB remaining.

Any ideas on why such capable HW runs windows so slowly?

 

[mhd2100]

Bootcamp doesn't utilize the flash/SSD portion of the fusion drive (only the slow hard disk portion). If you want a fast Windows 10 you have to upgrade to pure SSD when ordering your machine or otherwise buy an external SSD and install Windows onto that.

 

[PickyBiker]

Now that I have a fusion drive is it possible to upgrade to 1TB ssd?

 

[imacken]

Now that I have a fusion drive is it possible to upgrade to 1TB ssd?

Not officially, no. Just buy a external SSD like the Samsung 850 EVO in an enclosure and you'll see a massive improvement. I run W10 in that way, and I get 430Mb/s read and write. Chalk and cheese compared to when I ran Bootcamp from the spinning HD part of my Fusion.