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Can't see my SSD (Lenovo Z50-70)

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September 29, 2014 7:58:33 AM

Ok, so I bought this laptop yesterday and it had that 8GB SSD besides the 1 TB HDD. I was confused about what SSD meant until I found out it's something that is better than HDD as it uses NAND-technology instead of normal magnetic drives. So when I checked my device manager, I saw it there underneath my HDD, but when I tried to access it, I was lost. I tried Disk Management with no hope, and I can't even understand how to use it or when .... Some people said that this may be used for Windows installation on it. However, I could only see it in BOOT MENU, so I know it's there but I can't reach it.

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September 29, 2014 8:14:42 AM

8GB sounds like a SSD cache(hdd\ssd hybrid). If so, you can't access it, it uses it as(cache) needed to allow quick access to often used files.
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September 29, 2014 8:19:07 AM

Hey GalaxyCereal. ss202sl is right. This is because the SSD which you are referring to is only used for caching. It basically makes your system faster. The SATA controller is set on RAID and you should be able to see it in the BIOS. Don't worry, everything should be OK as it is now.

Hope that helps.
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