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Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 2 | © 2009 Lenovo Overview High Performance -- 2x Data transfer speed -- ½ OS/S4 boot time -- Faster software operation -- Better game experience Power Saving -- Longer battery life -- Idle mode power saving Combined SSD and HDD capacity together in virtual C drive. With OS and applications installed in SSD, speed up system performance. DATA HDD DATA HDD DATA HDD System CPU DATA RAM DATA CPU RAM SSD System Without RapidDrive RapidDrive Mode

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 3 | © 2009 Lenovo Requirement Machines supporting RapidDrive (Need a special chips on Motherboard) For example, Y560, Y460, K46 and so on HDD + SSD SSD is special one for Lenovo and can be used on PCIe connector RapidDrive Driver: RapidDrive 2.0 The driver can works well on Win 7. No test on Win XP Windows 7 preloaded OS, drivers and apps MUST be in SSD OneKey Recovery for RapidDrive It can be also used on the machine with HDD. The UI is same with previous version

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 4 | © 2009 Lenovo HDD&SSD Hybrid SSDHDD RapidDrive Driver Hybrid Storage (Act as one disk) * RapidDrive 2.0 not support specifying HDD or SSD to store the files (C partition). SSD HDD C partitionOther partition O partition OS Preload Apps Installed Apps Data in C partition Some data and apps may locates on SSD* Installed Apps Data in this partition OKR Backup

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 5 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ Which machine comes with RapidDrive? 1.The machine with following icon supports RapidDrive. 2.Users can buy the SSD and download the driver from Lenovo. And their machines should be ready for the RapidDrive. For example, Y460, Y560 and so on. The benefits of RapidDrive? offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/US/Sitelets/Enhanced Experience/Consumer news

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 6 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued How to install OS on SSD? When installing Windows 7, SSD and HDD can be specified in the below stage: If OS (Windows 7) is installed on HDD, not SSD. What will happen? It doesn’t support RapidDrive. However, the machine can work well in this situation like a normal one with a SSD plugged without RapidDrive driver. If RapidDrive driver is installed on this condition, it will cause “Blue Screen”. The picture is only used to show the stage, NOT practical one.

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 7 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued If installing OS on SSD without RapidDrive driver, what will happen? The machine will have the whole SSD to be the system partition. What is RapidDrive driver used for? The driver is used to combine SSD with HDD. SSDHDD + RapidDriver Driver = SSD HDD C partitionOther partition O partition

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 8 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued Can users uninstall RapidDrive Driver? No, they can’t. When a new version driver is released, the old one can be replaced. The relevant information about the driver can NOT be found in the Control Panel and Registry to prevent users from destroying the driver which will cause the crash. Can SSD be found in the Device Manager? Yes. Unplugged the SSD on the RapidDrive machine. The operation system and drivers are located on the SSD. If unplugged, the machine is crashed.

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 9 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued Can SSD be found in the Disk Management? No. There is a bug when checking the disk. “Disk 1” is a bug after combining SSD with HDD. When entering the “Disk Management”, a dialog box is popped up to ask users to initialize “Disk 1”. However, it doesn’t take effect.

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 10 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued How to make a 300GB C partition for RapidDrive model? For example, 32GB SSD + 500GB HDD. Targets: 300GB C disk + 212GB D + 20GB O. SSD (32GB)HDD (500GB) 1. Initialize SSD and HDD. And install OS & Driver & App on SSD. 2. Allocate some partitions on HDD. Notice: the primary partitions on HDD MUST be less than 4. 32GB 269GB212GB Unallocated 3. Delete first partition (269GB partition). 32GB Unallocated212GB Unallocated 4. Install RapidDrive Driver. The system partition will be extended. Notice: If the whole HDD is unallocated, the system partition will be extended to whole HDD. 32GB Extended partition212GB Unallocated 500GB partition

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 11 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued How to adjust the partitions? Some tools can be used to merge / delete / adjust the partitions, for example, “Acronis Disk Director Suite”. For RapidDrive machines, only the tool preloaded on Windows 7 is supported. OneKey Recovery for RapidDrive? The OneKey Recovery is optimized for the RapidDrive without change of UI and functions. Factory backup is the backup of the files on SSD only.

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 12 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued How to reinstall the OS? The OS can NOT be installed following the normal way. RapidDrive provides a useful tool to reinstall the OS – RapidDriveTool. 1.Run “RapidDriveTool” under the OS. 2.Shut down. 3.Boot the machine with ODD to install the OS. RapidDriveTool is used to separate the SSD and HDD. It can NOT be used to install dual operation systems with RapidDriveTool.

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 13 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued Which may cause the crash of the machine (relating to RapidDrive)? 1.Install OS and RapidDrive driver on HDD. 2.The HDD is replaced. Some drivers may locates on it. 3.Some files used to maintain system partition (SSD+HDD) is damaged. They can be restored with OKR. 4.The 5 th primary partition was created through some tools. Only 4 primary partitions are available, so delete it using the same tool. When allocating partitions on HDD, make sure the primary ones are less than 4. 5.Master Boot Record (MBR) of HDD was damaged. MBR can be fixed with some tools. 6.SSD can not be detected.

Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Lenovo Confidential Page 14 | © 2009 Lenovo FAQ - continued RapidDrive 3.0 Following are some features supported by RapidDrive 3.0: 1.Specify the location (SSD+HDD) to save the files. 2.Frequently used date will be moved to SSD automatically. 3.Some bugs are fixed.

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