Question about the E 15 solid state drive

I just got this laptop during Amazon's Prime Day, and so far I love it. However, it supposedly has an 8GB SSD in addition to the 1TB HDD, but I can't find any evidence of its existence. No other drive shows up anywhere that I can see, including in Disk Management. My exact model is an Aspire E5-573G-59C3.

1 TB / 500 GB 2.5-inch 5400 RPM self-pinning solid state hybrid hard drive with 8 GB Flash memory the 8GB SSD is part of the 1TB HDD managed as cache, so you can't access, even on Disk manager.

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