Hybrid Drive and Windows 8

Clueless02

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Hey guys im new to the forums and have a quick question. I have an HP Envy 15 Laptop with a 750 GB hybrid hard drive. This type of drive essentially stores the windows start up files and other commonly used files in the solid state portion of the drive so they start up and perform quicker. Furthermore my school offer a free windows 8 upgrade program which I would like to take advantage of. My question to you is will upgrading to windows 8 render this function of my hard drive useless? Any advice on the matter is greatly appreciated.
 
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The caching in a SSHD is an internal function controlled by the drive itself. The only way to make it not work is to use files in some way that would prevent consistent caching. Windows 8 should not do this and you should be performing as fast as ever as soon as files begin to be sent to the flash memory.

gbryan101

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The caching in a SSHD is an internal function controlled by the drive itself. The only way to make it not work is to use files in some way that would prevent consistent caching. Windows 8 should not do this and you should be performing as fast as ever as soon as files begin to be sent to the flash memory.
 
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Ok, thank you so much! So basically the Hard Drive self determines which files are used most frequently(i.e. start up files)?
 

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That about it exactly.