Questions about SSHD installation

[FirehawkV21]

So, my laptop's hard drive is going to fail soon and I was looking for replacement. As I was searching, I noticed Seagate's Laptop Thin SSHD. And after some research, I decided to get one ASAP.

Should I clone the old hard drive DESPITE that SMART tests fail? It can still read and write from the diagnostics I ran.

Also, how exactly Windows 8.1 handles hybrid drives? I read that it gives LBA hints, but I still don't get it.

The laptop is a Lenovo G580 (Intel Core i3 2328M @ 2.20Ghz, Windows 8.1 x64). Both Hard drives (the old and the SSHD) are 500GB.

[NotCthulhu]

I would try to clone it and sshds are plugin in and go pretty much.

[FirehawkV21]

I guess I have to try, no?

I'll start looking for an HDD Cloning software, then.

Hopefully I can salvage the entire drive's files without corruption before it fails (already the old drive has slow read and write speeds and the C: partition had most of the files corrupted).

[cesrai]

-sorry- worng thread.