Why is the Hard Drive Partitioned into 2 drives?
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To help with organizing file storage and to keep the Operating System drive from becoming too full of program files. It's a fairly common way of handling large storage capacity drives.
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There are two terabyte hard drives on this laptop which provides more than enough storage for an average user. So to put it plainly 2 HDD.
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it got 2 hard diak drive. one is 128gb one is 1tb. soild state is like usb drive
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All of the drives are combined into one drive. There are no options to create two logical disk drives.
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Two reasons. The devise needs space for the file system program or operating program and second drives are measured in bytes which when added up are short of the measure sort of like the difference between metric and imperial.
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There is only designed space for the one hard drive, but if you're industrious, you could probably cram another in there (disclaimer: it won't fit easily and also won't be bolted in.)
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There are four separate 'hard drives': two are SSD and two are HDD. So they appear as C, D, E, and F. The total 'bytes' is about what they advertised. But I was surprised. If you are expecting one large 'hard drive', all the bytes in C, then you will also be surprised.
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You know i had that same doubt when i installed for the first time, i thought i'd actually see the SDD partition. But thats now how the SHDD works, you don't see the SDD partition, the hard drive chooses by itself what data is going to be recorded on the SDD part, and you don't actually have access to it.
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No, It is a single drive and has a single parition. The drive is simply a hybrid method (SSD/HDD) of storing memory.
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If you check the drive in Computer Management you should see the entire drive, part of which you don't have access to. There may be a hidden partition, one that's not recognized by Windows, or simply unallocated space that can be pulled together with the partition you do see. Be sure you remove anything from the drive you want to keep before starting this.
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Hard drives are sold using non-computer size measurements for some odd reason. A 2TB drive is not 2048 GB, but 2000 GB... And the GB they are using is only 1000 MB and so on. Also, that is the UNFORMATTED SIZE. if you think of a hard drive as a parking garage, you can think of formatting as painting the lines for the fairways and parking spaces. While the garage would hold more cars if you didn't set aside space for the lanes, it wouldn't be very usable. Likewise, without formatting the drive, it won't have things like the directory structures that the computer needs to find the files stored on it. Hard drives are sold using non-computer size measurements for some odd reason. A 2TB drive is not 2048 GB, but 2000 GB... And the GB they are using is only 1000 MB and so on. Also, that is the UNFORMATTED SIZE. if you think of a hard drive as a parking garage, you can think of formatting as painting the lines for the fairways and parking spaces. While the garage would hold more cars if you didn't set aside space for the lanes, it wouldn't be very usable. Likewise, without formatting the drive, it won't have things like the directory structures that the computer needs to find the... » Read More Hard drives are sold using non-computer size measurements for some odd reason. A 2TB drive is not 2048 GB, but 2000 GB... And the GB they are using is only 1000 MB and so on. Also, that is the UNFORMATTED SIZE. if you think of a hard drive as a parking garage, you can think of formatting as painting the lines for the fairways and parking spaces. While the garage would hold more cars if you didn't set aside space for the lanes, it wouldn't be very usable. Likewise, without formatting the drive, it won't have things like the directory structures that the computer needs to find the files stored on it. « Show Less
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There are two additional slots for either Hard drive or DVD Drives I'm sorry but I'm not familiar enough to tell the difference
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The size of the drive is dependent on the operating system you are using 2TB max for XP, Win 7 9TB.
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They are indistinguishable to the computer, the drive appears as one disk. It uses the SSD at-will, and you have no control over it.
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to you it looks like 1 drive. The firmware on the drive uses the ssd for the most active files. you don't control that. format the partition and load your os. i think you will like it! I am really very happy with the performance; it is very smooth and very consistent.
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Yes, two drives performing a redundant service. If one drive fails, all of your data is retained on the other. When the failed drive is replaced all data is again stored to both drives. This means there is only 2TB of storage.
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I've actually copied a few smaller to larger drives, but I can't remember how it handled the partition on the new drives. If it didn't automatically resize to fill the drive, then it was trivial to do within Windows because I know I didn't spend a lot of time doing it, and I definitely didn't use partitioning software.