Fraud?? My aspire s7's hard drive is a 6 year old 107GB HDD, it suppose to be 128GB SSD

Just a few days ago on my Hong Kong trip, I had my last minute shopping, bught myself an Aspire S7-391-53314G-12aws. It was purchased at the famous electircal store,"Broadway", the sales opened the box in front of me so I think there should be no problem. The happy mood didn't last for long, when I came back home in Melbourne, Australia, I strat to check the laptop and found something which does not fit to the description of the product info on the official website, the supposed to be 128GB SSD drive wasn't there, instead it was a 107GB HDD manufactured in 2006. Now what?? Is it a fraud? Acer, you better explain!

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freeza

Good day

I will summarise to make it easy for you to understand. the firmware/ driver version is for some reason always old on hard drives. I have a mac pro 12 6c intel xeon, came stand with 1TB 2.5inch HDD, it has a 2006 driver version. My sony vaio which i have just put in an OCZ 1TB SSD drive also has 2006 driver version. We in the IT industry have learnt to rather leave some things as is, as long as the warranty is covered and an average life span of hardware is met, we are happy.

As for the HDD size, even if you but a TB, you will not see the full 1000GB, this will never happen. However the 1000GB will be there, but only a portion can be used, accessed, etc and we have no control over this. One of the other space is allocated for OS, dos based programs, virtual ram, virtual hdd, etc. However you go to your properties of the HDD, you will notice bytes where it shows capacity. If you calculate those bytes, they will equal to 128GB.

Here is more info and lead on how you can calculate the size of your HDD...I stand to be corrected:

8 bits = 1 byte

1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte

1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte

1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte

1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte

Therefore:

1 gigabyte=1,048,576 bytes

128 gigabytes=134,217,728 bytes

256 gigabytes=255,691,412bytes

Regards,

Freeza

peterchen

Thank you Freeza, the only thing I really can't figure out is the type of hard drive, I checked the disk drives under device manager on my laptop, it tells me that it's an Intel HDD0 definitely not SSD as Acer has stated and we all know that an SSD is more expensive than a HDD.

Nelkang

I owned an Acer S7 i5 128G too. My hard disk show HDD0, can someone tell us what it means?

rosustefan

mine also shows hdd0, but i made some benchmark tests on my ssd and i compared the speeds to the speed registered in the official reviews found all over the internet. i have aprox 650 mb/s write speed and aprox 850 mb/s reading speed.

so in my opinion it is not a problem, as long as inside there lies a powerfull ssd.

i suggest you run some benchmark tests for your ssd and convince that there is nothing wrong.

stefan

TheACN

windows doesn't differentiate HDD's and SDD's. Uses the same drivers on both. Thats why everyone would see HDD0.

Anyway, there are some specific programs that would give you more information on the drive you have. I would suggest crystaldiskinfo. You'll get manufacturer info, firmware info, properties, start counts etc...

jonstatt

Actually HDD0 is simply a logical name for the RAIDed pair of SSDs. The true SSDs are abstracted by the RAID set-up. If you want to see the real SSDs, simply go into the BIOS by holding down F2 on a restart of the machine. You will then see what SSDs are inside the machine. I have two Lite-on 64GB SSDs in my mine.

fromtexas07

FWIW - My hp system shows INTEL SSDSA1M160G2HP in Device Manager. Do not understand why Acers says HDD if it's actually SSD.

jonstatt

fromtexas07 wrote:
FWIW - My hp system shows INTEL SSDSA1M160G2HP in Device Manager. Do not understand why Acers says HDD if it's actually SSD.

Because there is only ONE SSD in that machine. In the Acer there are TWO that are raided together. So you see an abstracted view of the two SSDs as one single HD....

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