SSD component of hybrid drive failing -- can I disable? does it matter?

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I just finished doing a factory-reset on my Lenovo t530, and hadn't gotten beyond running windows updates when the system started telling me that the SSD was likely to fail. (The system has a Western Digital hard drive with a San Disk 16GB SSD. I don't know yet if they're part of the same physical component, but I assume so at this point. However, the system does recognize them as components that can be TESTED separately.)

What I'd like to know is whether it's feasible to either disable the SSD component, or disable the SSD caching.
 
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Thanks -- that's not the answer, but it did point me in the right direction.

Actually, that wasn't an option in this case -- however, your answer did lead me to where I needed to go to disable the SSD drive: Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > Disk Drives. I disabled the SanDisk, crossed my fingers and rebooted -- and am no longer seeing warnings.

I think it's also possible the caching was simply not functioning after the factory reset, but I don't know how I'd have been able to tell.
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Thanks -- that's not the answer, but it did point me in the right direction.

Actually, that wasn't an option in this case -- however, your answer did lead me to where I needed to go to disable the SSD drive: Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > Disk Drives. I disabled the SanDisk, crossed my fingers and rebooted -- and am no longer seeing warnings.

I think it's also possible the caching was simply not functioning after the factory reset, but I don't know how I'd have been able to tell.
 
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Not failing -- just that someone else's particular configuration didn't match (and what should we expect, we use Windows!).
 
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