Size of Ssd drive on a new laptop

DaveG247

Afternoon all,

So I'm giving my old laptop to the parents as their computers on its way out and a laptop would be must more practical.

I'll been having a look round and have seen a Lenovo Y510p online which looks like it has a good spec and some good reviews, the only thing am not sure about is that it comes with both ssd 8gb & 1tb hdd drive. Would the size of the sdd be ok? Guessing it'll only run the os but just wanted to ask. Any advice would be great thanks.

closed

it's probably a SSHD hybrid drive, rather than ssd + 1tb.

if on the way out means slow, reinstall windows.

DaveG247

Cheers for that forgot there's hybrid drives.

It is a bit slow, and seems to be blue screening (physical dump) a lot saying that it's about 4th hand.

They have been looking at getting a laptop for a while and making a bit more room but if it's not too much hassle I might give it a go. Thanks

closed

blue screens and slow are nearly always caused by software, backup and factory restore should cure it

DaveG247

Easy enough to do via windows or do I need some software? Reinstalling not something I've attempted before.

closed

if you have the windows disc, or if it's branded and there is a still a factory restore partition after 3 previous owners, then it's easy.. depends on the model. See the speedup sticky thread.

DaveG247

Cheers for the help Closed, shall have a look at that thread, might even try a reinstall on my laptop depend on how the pc goes.