Does the solid state 8 GB solid state drive mean that this has a quick startup, or does it use it's traditional drive for a slower startup process?
1005118
Very quick startup - the only drive mine has is a 128 gig solid state drive. You can get different configurations of this computer either from Lenovo or Newegg
1241762
What do you mean "digital"? I'm assuming you meant solid state. No, this is not an SSD. As you can see in the image, this drive has platters.
504790
This drive is compatible with all sata 3 and 2 motherboards. As for performance, I see increases in boot times and a few other most commonly used applications such as internet explorer and mail programs. Boot went from 3 minutes to about 50 seconds to log in screen. I have a lot of stuff loading so it takes a while after login before everything loads. Only 8 gig of ssd so you have to figure how big your programs are in memory. more than that, I would recommend a real SSD, but it costs for this kind of storage space.
1740968
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.
1916807
You dont generally, the 80GB mSATA solid state drive is used by the OS for caching purposes. Or it could be configured to have the OS only installed on it not sure though. Can Seller clarify?
1438014
No, and once you use the SSHD for a little while it becomes a regular hard drive. Except if you only go on and play 1 or 2 prpgrams and ot a bunch of diff apps. THe 8gb get clogged up fast and youll notice a speed increase about 3 days after using it then slowly begin to slow down again as the system cant decide which files should be ready to go the way you can on a regular ssd. Would not buy again.. get the Wester Digital Black 2 , ssd + 1tb dd combo ... a real ssd...
966166
the one I have has a 256 gig solid state in it. It partitions down to a little bit less than that
1940546
Hybrid drives are slower. 8GB of Flash, what are you going to do with that. I've tried many Seagates. Dual drive is better but pure SSD why not these days
381120
That shouldn't be a problem. But be aware that WHS will use only 20GB as System partition which cannot be changed! The rest will be added to your storage pool. It's also worth mentioning that the first storage drive has special significance. It is where all the so called tombstones are created. These are pointers to the real files that are somewhere on the physical devices in your storage pool. I personally would recommend against using a SSD as boot drive. A fast SATA drive will work just fine. And does it really matter if your WHS boots in 20 or 30 seconds?
1327628
Absolutely! Solid state drive doesn't have moving parts like a traditional HDD. This allows much greater performance and greatly decreases risk of failure....
638089
It Has to re-boot, so it starts from the beginning. My 4 Gig drive stopped working after 1 week.
93009
I'm not sure what a "solid state" drive is. It seems to be a spinning hard drive inside of a housing. I have to say that the reviews are correct in that the housing is somewhat loosely surrounding the drive but it continues to serve me well.
631971
1 TB hard drive with an 8gb solid state drive for quick start up and almost instant loading of frequently visited sites, also known as express cache. Its fast!
370578
I run Yosemite 10.10.2 and have not noticed any difference in boot times (my disk connects via Thunderbolt 1.0, not USB 3.0). It does take the drive several seconds to boot up and become available after it goes to sleep (which is very annoying). The drive is fairly quick to go to sleep after non-use and I regularly have to wait for it to become available again. But it did that with Mountain Lion and Mavericks, too. Despite having to wait for it to wake from sleep I am quite happy with the drive. Having 8TB of space with super-fast data transfer is a joy.
1664314
I purchasde one of the solid state computers from UltaComputers. Originally it worked fine- superfast - load up time was less than 1 minute from power on, password, and open a program. I believe Ultra Computers modifies this computer with the solid state drive. My solid state drive developed an error and is now in the service department. Originally sent this to Samsung service to be repaired and they told me it had been modified from the original equipment and would charge me for repairs. I then sent it to UltraComputers and am awaiting its repair there.
1656117
Its a Solid State Drive...so it is much better than a regular hard drive or a 16gb USB drive. It doesn't spin, no moving parts, less mechanical error, and files store on it (like the operating system) will read much faster than a regular hard drive. I have a 120 gb solid state drive and my computer boots in 3 seconds. With that being said.....I also have a 2 tb drive as well but I play game and do video editing which this computer is not designed for.
1449745
I haven't really paid any attention. It seems fast enough; of course, faster is always better. I use it to create and store backup disk images of PCs. I'm happy with the unit and am just happy that I don't have to manually make 2nd copies of things.