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I recently purchased the Lenovo Ideapad Y500 that has the 16GB SSD. I'm wondering if its possible to take that out to replace with a larger SSD?

Also I'm assuming the OS is on that drive for faster boot up. If i can exchange the SSD how could i get the OS from one SSD to the other?
 
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you could do a system recovery after you install the new mSata. assuming the restore is from the HDD or DVDs. otherwise you will have to clone the drive to another media and then restore the new drive
 
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i couldnt find anything that said exacly what it was. if i understand how mSATA cache works, just swap it out. the caching hardware/software will rebuild it as you use your computer. if i'm worng, i'm sure someone will chime it.
 
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When you replace the ssd, it will not be a cache. It has to be setup again and they use expresscache which is a bit of a pain to do. But from what I understand, you want to have the os on the ssd and boot from it so you won't even mess with caching. When you replace the ssd, you can clone the hdd to it, then change the boot order in bios so it will boot from the ssd. You may need to manually turn on trim and turn off defrag and indexing.
 
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Thanks for the reply. Thats about what I've been seeing as well. What exactly is the purpose of the SSD as a cache? Would a larger one be beneficial? If it is set up as a cache your saying a cant boot from it or use it as storage even if it was a large SSD?
 
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The software will copy commonly used files and put it on the ssd so those files will be ssd speeds. It is shown that more than 64gb cache is the most before you won't see an effect. But I always suggest a larger ssd and control for yourself what gets the speed since the software may cache files that don't need it.
 
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Ah ok thanks. So in theory though if I were to change out the main HDD to a SSD I wouldn't need the other set up as a Cache? Also with it set up as a cache can I boot my OS from it?
 
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I don't think it'll even let you have the cache enable without a hdd, it can see a ssd vs a hdd. I haven't messed with expresscache but other caching software won't let you. You cannot boot from a cache, you can't even use it as storage. It will not even show up in "my computer." You could partition the ssd and have a small partition to cache and use the other large partition to boot from.
 
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