If it does speed up, and passes all SMART tests & seems good, then it sounds like just a bad label, maybe from a weird 3rd party reseller. If F3 reports all's good, then trying to read the same few files (it uses 1GB test files, so read 3 or 4 of them) maybe 10 times in a row should convince the drive to put that data into it's faster SSD section, and increase read speeds from HD (150MB/s?) to SSD (750MB/s?). You'd have to watch out for the OS disk cache, and the size of the SSD section, apparently it's 8GB (see below), but I'd guess use maybe 20%-50% of the SSD size, and at least double your ram+disk cache? ![]() You could try reading the same data over and over, and see if the drive eventually moves it to the SSD & then starts giving insanely fast read speeds. I don't think there's many other tests to try, other than manufacturer's diagnostics & SMART data, the drives usually automatically pick what to put in the faster SSD section so there's no user or OS control over it, it's essentially a "black box." ![]() Now, is there a way for me to test if this drive indeed is a SSHD or just a plain HDD? ![]() Should be another 12 hours to go before I have the answer. I'm currently running F3 to see if reported disk size has been hacked.
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