Install Win8 on the SSd

My twist S230u has a 24GB SSD in it but the O/S is installed on the 500GB sata drive. I have a recovery USB which I created when i first got the machine. IS it possible to re-install the Windows8 to the SSD? Presumably I will get faster performance if this can be acheived. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

Jamerson:
Because the 32 GB SSD is too small to be used as an OS drive and will fill up very quickly. If you have a 32gb SSD and a regular hard drive then your laptop must be configured to use the SSD as a cache drive for the larger hard drive. The reason that is done is to make the operating system perform faster.
http://download.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/intel_sma...
The information is on intel.com.
Hope this information provided some clarity.
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