can anyone confirm this has a solid state drive? mine did not come with one as it does not show up in bios or device manager...
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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."
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The XPS 1340 states it uses a solid state drive not a SATA drive, for more info check Dell website, support,specs.
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I purchased mine around the same time, and had no problems. It's difficult to advise you here though (because of so little info about your problem and no back and forth). I suggest checking Asus' support site. While it's hard to navigate, it does have lots of info, including (I believe) teardown docs for replacing the hard drive and memory.
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The best was is to download the newest BIOS from ASUS and put it on a USB drive. You can then use the BIOS update utility built into the BIOS to update it.
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Yes, correct. After my purchasing this unit, my colleague has bought two. One unit failed within a week. The other has been working well. I must say that after upgrading my laptop's BIOS the issues have gone. So, most likely the drive itself is not really unreliable. So, my advice to anyone experiencing problems is to check for BIOS upgrade, especially if upgrading to Windows 8.
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Yes it does support all of features. I'm using ssd cache right now. Works great. Just make sure you update to the latest BIOS update.
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This drive is treated as a cache. All software that is loaded goes thru this cache. This isn't a traditional solid state drive that you have access to. Lot of people call this the new hybrid drive setup. Having a traditional hard drive for storage and then having all that information going thru the 24 gig solid state cache drive. Hope this helps.
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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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sorry I dont' know. I had to send mine back after 4 months when it crashed big time on me. Hard drive replaced by asus, lots of other problems, will never buy asus again, got a Toshiba satellite that blows that piece of junk away...
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find a different mobo.theses have bad sata controllers.i warrentied mined 6 months after getting it and this one the sata ports only work if hdd is on one and dvd etc. on 4-6. too much of a hassel to warrenty out again.
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It was my understanding that this item included an SSD slot...when I received mine it didn't have one so that may be why you are asking this question you may have been deceived like I was....if there is no SSD slot then you need to add something to the USB connection that may provide an SSD slot...sorry
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I don't recall. The laptop completely died within a month of installing this drive. The drive worked fine, the power supply died. I no longer have it so can't look and see what the Brand name was. /sorry
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Yes it does but I think I had one hole open after the install. Remember to download the driver and install it. You can't see this drive but it's working.
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Mine is in a headless server, Win 8.1 Pro. I can't get into the BIOS without hooking it up. If I knew what you were looking for I'd like to help.
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hi. i was wondering how upgrading the hard drive went for you cuz i was thinking of doing it. also, did u buy ur hard drive off of ifixit's website if you did and does making imporvement dissuade any warranty on the laptop? thanx.
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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.
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Good points. It's still relatively new, and I wonder especially how the hard drive model has held up. My new one arrived DOA, and now I'm really struggling over whether to ask Amazon for a refund or an exchange. This baby may be intended to be Solid State all the way, which means the hard drive models will be unwanted period pieces in another year or two.