How To Check SSD In Laptop

How to find out if a hard drive is SSD or HDD on Windows? This article will teach you how to check whether the hard drive on your Windows PC is an SSD (Solid State Drive) or HDD (Hard Disk Drive).

What is SSD?

The full name of SSD is Solid State Drive; it is a storage device for the computer that stores large amounts of data like an HDD.

SSD does not have any Spinning Parts to read/write data like HDD or Floppy disk.

Steps to check SSD are given below:

• Press Win + S, this will open a Window Search bar.
• Type optimizes, a list of results will appear if they match. Or you can type “dfrgui” on the run command.

• Click Defragment and Optimize Drives, it should be the first result. This will open an Optimize Drive panel.

• Find your file type under “Media Type”. If you have more than one drive on your laptop and computer, they all will be listed separately.

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Benefits of Solid State Drive:

• The life span of a hard drive is about 25 percent less than that of an SSD because SSD does not have moving parts.
• It is more reliable and shock resistant than hard drives. For example, if you drop your laptop and have an SSD installed in it, your screen will probably break before the Solid State Drive.
• Average System Boot-up speed in SSD storage is 10-13 seconds while Boot-up time for HDD storage systems is 30-40 seconds, which is 3 times slower.
• The speed of reading and writing in Solid State Drive is much higher, which means that the upload and download of data are very fast.
• It read and writes at a rate of 200MB per second. The Access speed of SSD is 35 to 100 microseconds which are 100 times of HDD.
• HDDs draw about 50 percent more power than SSDs, which affects battery life as well as electricity bill.
• This SSD has lightweight components, so they can be easily carried anywhere.
• SSD is easy to set up and doesn’t require any special experience.
• There are no moving parts in a solid state drive, due to which generates less heat.

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Conclusion:

In this article, we have discussed how to check SSD on laptops and what are the benefits of using SSD. So if this article helped you in solving your queries then definitely tell us in the comment section and don’t forget to share it with your friends.