Re-partitioning Hybrid Drive

[nimrodel]

Hi,

I have some Lenovo laptops with Hybrid (500gb/8gb) drives. I was expecting 2 separate drives eg c: SSD and d: Mechanical however as most of you probably know they don't work like that. As I understand it, they are really a mechanical drive with a big cache that is non-volatile and some firmware that decides which files go where.

My question is, I want to deploy an image to these laptops using WDS and answer files. The answer file I am about to use wipes all the partitioning and reformats and repartitions the drive. Will this cause a problem or will the drive be unaffected by this? I obviously don't want to lose the advantage of SSD.

 

Thanks

Dave

[DJ-1701]

It's a hard drive, all it does is stores 1s and 0s so shouldn't be a problem :-).

[SHimmer45]

the SSD part of the hybrid drive is as you say a cache area wiping the drives wont cause an issue imo. as the drive is used the drive decides which files are moved to the cache.

[Arthur]

Will this cause a problem or will the drive be unaffected by this?

It will be fine since 99% of SSHDs appear as a single drive.

 

The only one that doesn't is the WD Black2 Dual Drive and your laptops don't have those.

[nimrodel]

Thanks guys! It's as I thought, but good to have some confirmation. I'll go for it!