Hello, the description says it has a 500GB hard drive and a 20GB SSD. Which one does it really have?
206594
The 20GB SSD is a cache for the 500GB hard drive. It's supposed to help speed up boot times and access speed
206595
Frank, it has both. The SSD is a 20GB and is for cache purposes. Look at the link and click on specifications. It has all of the info. that the listing should have. I am very pleased with this laptop! http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Acer-Aspire-TimelineU-M5-581T-6024-15.6in-Core-i5-3317U-Windows-7-Home/3035027.aspx
206596
It has both, the ssd is a cache drive which makes it boot and respond much quicker.
1822531
The unit I purchased came with a 500GB HDD. I don't know if it's offered with other options.
855725
Yes, the only hard drive it has is 128SSD. That is enough to get you through most tasks, and it keeps it light weight. I bought separate external hard drives to use when needed. Also, for me, after almost a year of use it has been running great. The lighted keyboard has been of more use than I thought and I am really glad for that option.
184085
I believe this particular one came with a 250GB Sata drive. I swapped it out with a 500GB SSD and then removed the DVD drive and used a drive caddy to put in an additional 1TB drive
2170845
The SSD isn't a typical storage drive. It is used to save the windows state on shut-down so the computer boots faster. You can not save programs to it or access in the typical manner. The OS is installed on the 500gb drive along with all programs and files. I am an IT person and this is still an extremely fast computer even for the OS not being on the SSD.
1245080
It has a solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). What that means is that it has a combination of a regular hard drive (500GB) fused with a SSD drive (24GB). If you want to learn more about it, there is a great Wikipedia article that you can find easily by doing a Google search for hybrid drives.
1877067
there are two hard drives in it which are not SSDs. i think they're both 1TB each, partitioned in a bunch of funky ways.i get a mild, constant shock from this thing when i rest my right wrist on the metal chassis, just fyi.
490139
It has 2x128 GB SSD, in a RAID 0 setup (this means you see these two disks as one of total of 256 GB)
1040521
Mine came with a 24GB SSD which is an mSATA drive used as a cache for the primary drive. It will not show up under My Computer and is availabe only to your system to use as needed to speed up program and OS startup. If you go to your device manager, it should show up under "disc drives."
387329
I'm bought the same system in January and it does have a 500 GB hard drive. It works great and is well worth the money.
312619
It is a laptop. There is a 128gb solid state drive ( ssd ) Newer,faster,better .
1526987
Mine does not have ssd. Only hdd (c drive - 436gb and d drive [datsparti] - 7.99gb).
1786735
Amazon sent me an email inviting me to respond to this since I purchased this item a few weeks ago. I don't know about the one being offered here but mine has a 297 gByte hard drive, as reported through Windows 7. I was happy quite satisfied with the laptop...the only cautionary tale is that it comes with Windows loaded with no hardcopy of the OS or key: If windows has to be reloaded for any reason (this has NOT happened to me yet, I am just being pessimistic) you will have to pay for it.
1968407
I bought that computer for my son, he loves it, no problems. Unfortunately I don't know what a ssd drive is, nor does he, so I can't give you any info on that.
2239441
The SSD is SATA3. One is a piece of hardware, the other is the way it connects to the computer. #lmgtfy
185203
Thank you for your interest in this item. This laptop is sold with an 80gb hard drive.
309077
It came with only 1x 128 SSD. I returned this computer as fast as I could though. It was just completely horrendous. Don't know if that helps you, but just fair warning from my experience.