thepinkanator95 :
So my laptop has an SSHD on it. I thought it meant that it has a small SSD part on it with a HDD for capacity. If so, how can I find out if my operating system is loaded on the SSD part and move it to the SSD part if it's not?
Hi,
What you most like have is a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive. Calling it an SSHD is a bit misleading. I have two of these in my laptop in RAID-0 and I absolutely love them. Don't get disheartened, they are absolutely amazing.
Seagate's Momentus XT hard disk drives combine a traditional platter based hard disk drive with a sizeable NAND Flash cache (which has grown in size over the years). It's very similar to Intel's Smart Response Technology. Intel's SRT performs the caching in software (which necessitates operating system support), but Seagate performs it entirely on the disk controller (which means that it's OS agnostic).
Intel's SRT and Seagate's Hybrid technology use the same operating principle. The existence of the fast solid state device is hidden from the operating system. The cache controller monitors which sectors of the hard disk are being accessed most often, and stores those sectors in the cache volume instead.
This operation is very apparent when running hard disk latency benchmarks. The first pass will exhibit normal hard disk drive latency (around 8ms to 20ms) but the second or third pass will exhibit solid state drive latency (a few microseconds).
Hybrid hard disks are great for laptops.