SSD drive missing from My Computer and appears to be merged with HDD drive?

Damian26

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Hey all, I'm new to these forums :D

But I appear to have a problem with my 8gb SSD drive.
On my laptop, I have a 8GB SSD drive and a 1TB HDD drive. I recently installed Windows on my laptop and I don't know why, but my SSD drive doesn't appear in my My Computer so I can't access it, and the only thing that appears is my HDD drive.
Here's some pictures of my problem: http://imgur.com/a/4ZD7p

Specs:
Intel Core i5-4200H 2.8 GHz Processor
8 GB DDR3 RAM
1 TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive, 8 GB Solid-State Drive
15.6-Inch Screen; NVIDIA GTX-860M 2GB Graphics
- It's a Lenovo Y-50 -

Thanks for the help peeps :D
 
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I can indeed tell you Damian that the 1Gb drive you have in the laptop is indeed a SSHD drive.

And it comes with 8GB of flash ram as part of the drive for smart caching of your most frequently run programs.

Here is what I pulled of the Lenovo website on the specs of the laptop.

Spec Sheet

CPU: 2.4GHz Intel Core i7-4700HQ (quad-core, 6MB cache, up to 3.4GHz with Turbo Boost)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M (4GB GDDR5 RAM); Intel HD Graphics 4600
RAM: 16GB DDR3L (2x 8GB, 1,600MHz)
Screen: 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 FHD, LED anti-glare backlight
Storage: 1TB HDD (5,400 rpm with an 8GB SSD cache) < Note 8Gb cache. classed as a SSHD drive.
Ports: 2 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, combination mic/headphone jack, HDMI, 4-in-1 card reader, Ethernet...

popatim

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You might want to confirm with Lenovo but I'd bet that you don't have a separate HDD and that you actually have an SSHD which has 8gb off sdd integrated into the drive as a cache. You have no control over what gets cached aside form launching the programs/data you want often so that it will now get cached.
These usually work very well for OS drives.
 
how do you know you have an 8GB SSD drive? does it show up somewhere in the computer or do you just see it in your specs? I bought a Lenovo G510 laptop a few years ago and the specs said it had a 1TB Hybrid drive but when i looked up the model number of the hard drive i was ablke to get from device manager it showed it was just a normal 1TB HDD
 

Damian26

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May 3, 2016
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Before I did the fresh install of windows, the 8GB's of SSD was fine and normal, then poof it's gone.
 
I can indeed tell you Damian that the 1Gb drive you have in the laptop is indeed a SSHD drive.

And it comes with 8GB of flash ram as part of the drive for smart caching of your most frequently run programs.

Here is what I pulled of the Lenovo website on the specs of the laptop.

Spec Sheet

CPU: 2.4GHz Intel Core i7-4700HQ (quad-core, 6MB cache, up to 3.4GHz with Turbo Boost)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M (4GB GDDR5 RAM); Intel HD Graphics 4600
RAM: 16GB DDR3L (2x 8GB, 1,600MHz)
Screen: 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 FHD, LED anti-glare backlight
Storage: 1TB HDD (5,400 rpm with an 8GB SSD cache) < Note 8Gb cache. classed as a SSHD drive.
Ports: 2 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, combination mic/headphone jack, HDMI, 4-in-1 card reader, Ethernet, SPDIF
Connectivity: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160, Bluetooth 4.0
Camera: 720p HD webcam
Weight: 5.29 pounds
Size: 15.23 x 10.37 x 0.9 inches (W x D x H)

Problem solved, not that there was one anyway.
 
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