what does having a 500gb hdd and a 32 gb ssd means. Is the OS installed on the ssd or is it on the hdd, and if it is on the hdd can it be switched to
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I checked my laptop and noticed that the 8gb ssd is visible in device manager but does not show up as a separate accessible drive under "This PC" e.g. "My Computer" or explorer. Therefore I can't save files to the ssd. The ssd shows up as disk 1 and the hdd shows up as disk 0 and contains the boot, files, oem, Recovery, page file, crash dump, and efi system partitions. Also, the os program files are on the 500gb hdd. The ssd has an 8gb primary partition only. All 8 gbytes are showing as free space on my laptop so I really don't know what the ssd is used for.
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From what I gather, the SSD is mainly used to help boot up the computer faster. It holds a lot of temporary files so that the HDD doesn't need to store them where your permanent files are. However, I am not tech savvy so I could be wrong.
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OS is installed on SSD drive, I removed the 750 drive and replaced with 256G SSD. I did not raid the drives since I want to run games from the 256 SSD and keep OS and other programs on the 128SSD.
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More storage is always preferred so I'd go with both drives (SSD with the OS so everything is faster and hybrid as a secondary for downloads). An SSD will usually cost more per GB than a hybrid drive but SSD is faster, quiter, more reliable, and less susceptible to damage since there's no moving parts. You can check reviews for the different drives on sites like www.cnet.com to get in-depth information including pros/cons. I have Windows 7 running on the 1GB hybrid drive and it's great!
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SSD stands for Solid State Drive. SATA is the type connection it uses to connect to the motherboard. You want your SSD to use SATA III type connection. Be sure its SATA III which is a 6 gb/s data transfer connection.
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Depends. You can replace the Hdd, with a ssd, or you can add up to two msata drives and leave the Hdd. I replaced the Hdd with a ssd, and added a msata drive.
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It has 500 GB HDD (not SSD), but today it doesn't mean much. Personally, I'm using few external HDs (for e-books, for pictures, for movies, for music etc.) which is very convenient.
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they are two different things. SSD is a type of disk, SATA is a type of connection. So yes, it's a SATA SSD.
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If you are swapping to an SSD, you need to back up the contents of your HDD first, but it stays on the HDD. So you are transferring the contents of the HDD to the SSD.
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Yes, the install offers an upgrade or to do a full (clean) install which is what I did. If you're putting an SSD and hard drive in to your machine, don't connect the hard drive until after the install if you want the OS to be on the SSD. The installer can get confused if you have more than one drive available.
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I believe it's just to make windows boot faster so it's a storage for windows. You don't select where to store stuff. I pulled it out and replaced with a 256GB SSD and this laptop is fast.
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Steffan is correct. Look up overprovisioning in google. Sandisk and Intel does this for you while companies like Samsung expect you to just partition the drive smaller or use their tool to shrink the drive if you install it using the Max size. You need to over provision an ssd for it to work properly, but some companies want you to see that 256GB on the box and think "Well, that is bigger than 240GB, Ill get the bigger one"
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The drive has software that 'clones' your existing drive. all files, including the operating system, are copied. Once that is done, you can delete any files you don't want on the SSD & still find them in their original place on the hard drive.
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You know that is a excellent question. All the specs on different websites say it has a 500Gb HDD with a 32GB SSD hybrid. Although when I search through my system properties I do not see the 32GB partition listed. Do you know exactly how I would know? I would think that the model numbers specs would be universal.
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It's the ssd. If you right click on the c drive and note the space it will give it away, because the hdd is 1 TB.
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I think there is a SSD in there, however it doesn't show up in the OS (I don't know if it is part of the HD, like a combo or separate). I do notice that it seems to speed up after a couple boots. The HD in this PC is slow, but my often used programs seem to come up fairly quickly.
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The SSD is SATA3. One is a piece of hardware, the other is the way it connects to the computer. #lmgtfy
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It's a 320gb hard drive. The ssd refurs to the 16gb - 32gb sd card. It's on the asus website. But this guy doesn't tell you is that there isn't an operating system in the product that he is selling. All he told was he "had to listen everything from asus site". Good computer crappy seller