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I d like to buy a Lenovo Ideapad z510 Laptop which has got a 508GB SSH harddrive (it s 500 GB SATA and 8 GB SSD). The preinstalled OS is DOS, I want to replace it with ubuntu

  1. Is the 8 GB SSD harddrive large enough to install Ubuntu 14.04 on it?

  2. What is going to happen if the SSD harddrive is too small? Will Ubuntu still be installed properly?

Oli
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user256422
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    You likely have a hybrid drive (SSHD) where then SSD typically is not exposed. Access to the SSD is done by the drive's firmware. They should just work like any hard drive: see e.g. http://askubuntu.com/questions/380778/do-ssd-hd-hybrids-increase-performance-in-ubuntu and http://askubuntu.com/questions/143033/will-a-laptop-with-hybrid-hdd-ssd-run-ubuntu – Takkat Jun 29 '14 at 18:38

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  1. Yes. 5GB is considered the minimum. I think you could probably get away with even less.
  2. It wouldn't allow you to start the installation if you didn't have enough space.
Oli
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