Can anyone who has order this Y580 recently, confirm is it is 16gb or 32gb SSD? Also, can you confirm the HDD speed, 5400rpm or 7200rpm?
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I purchased this laptop last month and can confirm that the SSD is 16 GB, and the HDD is 5400 RPM.
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I have a 16 GB SSD and a 5400 RPM. Watchout, the disk name is WD7500 but it stands for 750GB not 7500rpm; hopefully the previous commenter is right.
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The drive is 5400rpm. Honestly I don't notice as my OS is installed on the SSD so the OS is very fast. All of my programs are on the 5400rpm drive.
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It only has the 1TB HDD. I don't know how much faster it would be with the 16GB SSD cache but it is very fast without it.
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It isn't SSD, it's a SSHDD, a combination of a SSD and a HDD. faster than a HDD
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I bought a Samsung ssd 256GB and cloned the drive with the included software. Works great. Just estimating the boot time before and after by counting in my head, before it took say 40 seconds from when I saw the first bios splash screen, and after putting in the ssd it takes 6 seconds to boot.
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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1TB SSD+HDD faster boot and photoshop work well! But Balance must Core i5 or i7 and 16GB Ram important work faster!! IF core i3 and 8GB Ram no possible!!
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It really isn't bad for speed. I got this for my daughter for college. I'm not sure what the ssd is.
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I bought these: Seagate Momentus 7200 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive ST9750420ASThey're fast and work great so far after daily abuse with external Final Cut Pro, Aperture, Photoshop, and iTunes libraries. Connected via Thunderbolt it seems just as fast as an internal drive. At the time, earlier in 2013, these were the biggest, fastest drives available. There are bigger drives now with larger caches.
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This person was confused. You're right... SSDs cannot have a mesaurement of RPM since they don't spin. Furthermore, the ASUS EB1007P-B0040 comes with a conventional HDD and not an SSD, so unless they upgraded the drive to be an SSD, it should be a conventional 320GB HDD.
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This model has a 1TB 5400RPM HDD, but also has a free hard drive bay. The first thing I did was buy a 500GB Samsung 840 SDD to boost system performance. I reinstalled windows on the new SSD and only use the 1 TB drive for movies, music, and other media.
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I installed a Samsung 840 1TB SATA and an Atlas 480GB MSATA in mine, myself, giving me 1.5TB of 6GB/sec SSD speed. Yes the laptop is still covered under the warranty, just not the drive(s). FYI its LIGHTNING fast, and VERY easy to install the drives, just remove the bottom (6 torx screws) and 4 screws for the SATA and 1 screw for the MSATA
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Have you received it yet? I am curious if the unit has a 250 or 320 gb hard drive. both sizes are indicated in the description.
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Hello.Ive purchased and currently own this product.This computer has SSD of 256GB and you can use slightly less than that. (The model that is described here)Thank you and let me know if you have any question!
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I have previously owned a T43, and the last one is a T61. The W530 did not have an SSD however I cloned the 500gb drive and installed aMicron ~900GB drive in it's place, W7 boots in seconds! run time on batteries is an easy 4 hours with little power saving turn on. The only thing I do not like: No caps lock led. I use it for engineering work and normally have it on a dock, However it still many times faster than the T61 while on batteries.
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Thanks for the info, just out of interest how fast does your laptop boot windows 7 with the ssd going at SATA II?
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YES, it does have a 32GB mSATA SSD drive! Those individuals stating that it doesn't in their reviews are wrong! They're looking at "Devices and Drives" or "Disk Management" and not SEEING the SSD because it is HIDDEN by the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) program (probably as a protective measure)!!! The 32GB drive has 2 partitions: the hibernation partition (used by Intel Rapid Start) and a cache partition (the largest, used by Intel Rapid Storage Technology) which greatly speeds up the 5200 rpm HDD. I'm sure if they'll just go into "Device Manager" and select "Disk Drives" it'll show up and they can come back and correct their reviews.