HP Pavilion 500-311no Secret/unused SSD in the case?

[martinnielsen92]

Hi, i recently tyook at look inside my  HP Pavilion 500-311no's case and i saw what looks like an SSD which also said SSD on it but wheni look in windows it doensat say anything about an SSD only the harddrive that it has, also on it's specification site it doesnt say anything about it. 

Any ideas? And how i can use it ?

[mdklassen]

I looked at: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04378197

It lists a 2 TB 7200 RPM disk-drive as "standard".

On your computer, open a command-line prompt, and type DISKPART and press ENTER.

Then, type LIST VOLUME  to get output like:

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     D   Audio CD     CDFS   DVD-ROM      300 MB  Healthy
  Volume 1         System Rese  NTFS   Partition    100 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 2     C   BOOT2016     NTFS   Partition    111 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 3     E   Data2014     NTFS   Partition    465 GB  Healthy

DISKPART>

To show which physical disk-drives (and CD/DVD) are connected.

Google-search for "download free SPECCY".

Download, install, and run SPECCY, to get output like:

which gives the details about the manufacturer and model-name of each disk-drive.

Note that the "RAID set" is mistakenly tagged as being 'SSD', but it's actually 2 "spinning" disk-drives, "mirroring" each other.

[Grzwacz · Accepted solution]

Hello

Your PC has a 16GB ExpressCache SSD to speed up boot and run programs fast.

It is hidden in Windows on purpose to stop data storage on drive.

Grzy