My laptop has a Hybrid HDD with a 32 GB SSD for cache. I removed the HDD to put in a cloned SSD, but I've had to put the HDD back in so I can get some data off of it.
But the HDD is now running super slow (Windows takes over 10 minutes or longer to boot). I've run CHKDSK with /r (it found about 230 MB of bad sectors after running for 18 hours) but it still runs super slow. The data is still in tact - if I boot to a Linux flash drive I can still mount the Windows partition and copy data off of it, but that too runs slow. hdparm -tT /dev/sda
shows varying speeds, from 145 kBps to up to about 90 MB/sec.
In the BIOS it shows the HDD as not being a RAID drive and the SSD is now showing as disabled. Since this uses a RAID set up, I haven't touched it thinking it would create a RAID array and wipe both drives.
Can I use the SSD as a cache to the HDD again? Or will doing this create a new RAID array and wipe out the HDD?