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How to Check If Hard Drive is SSD or HDD in Windows 10

By: Waseem Patwegar

If you are wondering about the type of Hard Drive installed on your computer, you will find below three different methods to Check if Hard Drive is SSD or HDD in Windows 10.

Check If Hard Drive is SSD or HDD in Windows 10

Check If Computer Has SSD or HDD Type Storage

The type of Hard Drive or the internal storage drive installed on a computer can either be HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or SSD (Solid State Drive) type.

While, traditional HDD (Hard Disk Drive) type storage is cheaper to buy, it is much slower compared to SSD (Solid State Drive) type storage.

In addition to providing significantly faster data transfer and retrieval rates, SSDs are shock resistant and consume much less power, compared to HDDs.

With this understanding, let us go ahead and take a look at different methods to check if the Hard Drive Type installed on a computer is SSD or HDD.

1. Find if Computer has SSD or HDD Using Defragmenter

The easiest way to check the type of Hard Drive or storage installed on a computer is to open the Defragmenter or Optimize Drives utility.

1. Right-click on Start button and click on Run.

Open Windows Run Command

2. In Run Command window, type dfrgui and click on OK.

Open Defragment Utility Using Run Command

3. On the next screen, the type of Hard Drive will be listed under Media Type Column.

Hard Drive Type Listed on Optimize Drives Screen

As you can see from above image, this computer has SSD type storage.

2. Find If Computer has SSD or HDD Using PowerShell

Another quick way to check the type of Hard Disk installed on a computer is by using PowerShell utility, as available in recent versions of Windows 10.

1. Right-click on Start button and click on PowerShell (Admin).

Open Windows PowerShell Command

2. On PowerShell screen, type Get-PhysicalDisk and press the Enter key on the keyboard of your computer.

Run Get-PhysicalDisk PowerShell Command

3. Once the Command is Executed, it will list the Hard Disk type on your computer under Media Type Column (see above image).

3. Find if Computer has SSD or HDD Using System Info

You can find detailed information about Hard Disk, RAM, Processor and other hardware installed on your computer by going to System Information screen.

1. Right-click on Start button and click on Run.

2. In Run Command window, type msinfo32 and click on OK.

Open System Information Using Run Command

3. On the next screen, navigate to Components > Storage > Disks in the left-pane. In the right-pane, you will find detailed information about the Hard Disk installed on your computer.

Hard Disk Info on Windows System Information Screen

In above case, the entry next to Media Type is listed as Fixed Hard Disk, which does not clearly specify whether it is SSD or HDD type.

However, the first two methods as provided above do confirm that the computer has SSD type storage.

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