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    Clarification on HDD/SDD on Y510p

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Amerika, Jan 10, 2014.

  1. Amerika

    Amerika Notebook Guru

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    I am planning on purchasing the Y510p from the lenevo site. It says that the storage is "1TB 5400 RPM+24GB SSD". Does this mean there is a HDD and a SDD (2 drives) in the laptop? Is the OS installed on the SSD? If not, will I have any problems with installing a 120gb SSD on it and then installing W8 on the SSD?

    Thanks!
     
    Amerika, Jan 10, 2014
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  2. ajkula66

    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    The 24GB SSD is used for cache, no OS there.

    You can replace the HDD with a "regular" SSD. At that point you may as well pull out the "cache" SSD out.

    Good luck.
     
    ajkula66, Jan 10, 2014
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