Hybrid drive not booting faster than a normal HD

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Published on 2012-06-09T06:46:20Z Indexed on 2012/06/09 22:42 UTC
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I have used Windows 7 to create an image of my existing standard 160GB HD and copied this image back to a bigger 500GB Seagate hybrid drive. After copying the image to the hybrid I had to resize the partition, which was fine but after rebooting a few times to "teach" the hybrid, I have no increase in boot speed. It still takes 20-25 seconds to close down and then over a minute to start up.

Is this something to do with the way the image lays itself on the drive indiscriminately? Do I need to load the OS on the drive from scratch to get the benefits?

My PC with an i5 processor, is using AHCI mode.

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