Would my laptop with an hdd+cache ssd benefit from a ssd replacement

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Hi there, I know these questions have been answered to death, but I couldn't find a post on this specific issue. I have my 2 year old ASUS S551L which has both a hdd and ssd which is used for caching (750GB, 24GB ssd).

It has been in recent times slowing up, it doesn't seem as nippy as my PC which I recently upgraded to an SSD. So my question is would I notice a big improvement if I replace the hdd with a ssd, and what then would happen to the existing24GB ssd?

thanks for your help
 
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This looks like it could be an mSATA SSD and if this is the case, you should be able to find one with larger capacity. However I'd really recommend that you get in touch with the laptop manufacturer's customer support and ask for recommended replacements and what's the exact type and form factor of the SSD, just to be on the safe side.
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Hey there.

Basically the setup you have now is what an SSHD (a hybrid drive does). A large HDD part for storage and a smaller SSD part for caching the most commonly used programs for faster access. SSDs' performance is a lot better than that of SSHDs and SSD + HDD cache configuration, so in my opinion you would benefit of having your OS on an SSD.
As for what would happen to the small 24GB SSD, I really don't know, because it depends on the laptop and the SSD + HDD configuration. In most cases those are built-in SSDs, which can't be removed from the mobo, but are still nonetheless separate drives (no matter how small they are) and can be used as separate drives. However if this is an SSHD, it is definitely a single device having both SSD and HDD part. But in order for you to get more accurate information, I'd advise you to get in touch with the laptop manufacturer's customer support and ask about that. I'd be interested to learn what you find out.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
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Yes, a pure SSD replacement would help a great deal.
24gb is not enough to hold what you regularly need so the back end hard drive will be what you access . Laptop hard drives are notoriously slow, being optimized for battery run time.
Samsung has a nice ssd migration aid to do the job.
 
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adsada

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Thanks all for your replies, definitely will replace the HDD, just wait a while for some good SSD offers to come up :)



I watched this disassembly of my laptop, and it seems that you can remove the small SDD, maybe a stupid question (I have no idea) but is this miniature size available in larger sizes, so then I could replace this with a bigger one, install windows on that and still have my HDD? Doubtful but interested to know!

cheers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyHZr5BO280
 
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This looks like it could be an mSATA SSD and if this is the case, you should be able to find one with larger capacity. However I'd really recommend that you get in touch with the laptop manufacturer's customer support and ask for recommended replacements and what's the exact type and form factor of the SSD, just to be on the safe side.
 
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