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    Y510 Replaced Samsung 1TB HDD with Samsung 840 SSD what to do with the 24GB SSD?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by panzer06, Jun 15, 2013.

  1. panzer06

    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

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    As the title says, I cloned the 1TB drive before even powering it on and swapped the drives. Using Disk Manager I can see the 24GB SSD is in the system but now that my boot drive is a SSD what does the 24GB that came with the system actually do?

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    vito357si Notebook Guru

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    Extra storage or you can sell it..
     
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    How do you use it for extra storage? It doesn't show up as a drive

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    ChrisNee1988, Jun 15, 2013
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  4. panzer06

    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

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    Indeed it does not. It does show up in Disk Management and offers the option to delete the volume. I'm considering deleting it just to see what would happen. But perhaps I should use my disk cloning software to clone it first.

    Hmmm, experimentation time!

    EDIT: I deleted the volume and created a simple volume and formatted it NTFS and now have Drive E: with 22.5GB free so yes it's just some speedy extra space!

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  5. Ghengis

    Ghengis Notebook Consultant

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    In your shoes, I'd sell it -- any Y510 owner who didn't buy a cache-drive configuration is stuck waiting (and waiting, and waiting) to buy a NGFF SSD. You'd probably get a nice premium for the drive if you hawk it on eBay before the market catches up to you!
     
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  6. Jobine

    Jobine Notebook Prophet

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    Right now, it shows up as unusable in disk management because it is currently used for caching (which is useless when you have an ssd)

    So just format it and sell it, or you can put linux on it if you want to keep it.
     
    Jobine, Jul 15, 2013
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