Got SSHD on my lenovo y50, but there is some sort of performance decrease?

[Seemly]

So my lenovo y50 takes long to boot so i thought it's normal as i read that some lenovo y50's had bad old HDD, but today I went to check in Device manager, and Disk drivers and found this
http://gyazo.com/e4855017f204d1e884e256369be6aaa2

I am not sure how pro the SSHD is, but my system is still sort of slow. why?

 

[dudeman509]

Because it's not a true SSD. It will cache recently-used data (like Windows startup files) and apps.

I have a SSHD in a laptop and a true SSD-based system will blow it out of the water due to the fast access times of solid state memory. However, the SSHD does decrease Windows 7 boot times and application load times (Chrome, Word, Excel, Outlook) by a significant margin compared to a standard 5400 RPM laptop hard disk. Anything else though, it's basically a regular slow spinning disk.

 

[bazzarooney]

This drive is a 5400 RPM drive (slow) even with the 8GB flash cache it will not be a great performer compared to a pure SSD

 

[Seemly]

This sucks. anyway to speed it up?

 

[dudeman509]

Reboot Windows 5x or so and it should speed up Windows load times. Launch a couple apps you use a lot.

Other than that, defrag it. Other than that, no.

 

[bazzarooney]

Follow dudeman's instructions or replace with a real SSD, you'll never go back to the spinning rust again.

 

[Seemly]

So I have to restart windows 5 times EVERY time?

 

[dudeman509]

So I have to restart windows 5 times EVERY time?

What? No. Just to load the Windows stuff into the SSD memory of the SSHD, after which, the disk will keep it there on subsequent startups. After you do that a couple times back-to-back, Windows should boot much more quickly in the future.

Basically, the SSHD "learns" what you use most frequently, and keeps that in the flash storage part of the disk for quick access.

 

[Seemly]

So after I do it, it's permanent?