How to check the computer using an SSD or HDD on Windows

It is important to check the computer components when buying an old computer. If you are wondering in an old laptop computer, an old desktop computer using a HDD or SSD hard drive but you do not want to extract the computer, please refer to the procedure of checking a computer using an SSD or HDD in the article below.

To check if your computer is using a HDD or SSD, follow these instructions:

Method 1: Test the hard drive on Windows manually

Step 1: Right-click on This PC / My Computer => Manage .

Step 2: Choose Disk Management (1) => right-click the drive to check (2) => Properties (3) .

Step 3: In the General tab, notice the zoned information line as shown below, which is the code of the SSD or HDD. You memorize or copy that code.

Step 4: Look up the hard drive code above with Google. If the results returned as shown below, the hard drive in the article is a WD green 240GB SSD.

Method 2: Check if the hard drive is SSD or HDD with Windows PowerShell

Step 1: Go to the Start menu and open Windows Powershell .

Step 2: Enter the following command and press Enter .

get-physicaldisk

After entering the command and pressing Enter, the computer will check and produce the result as shown below. If we see the word SSD or HDD in MediaType, that means formatting your drive. If it says Unspecified , the hard drive is an old HDD that has not been updated on Windows 10 systems.

Method 3: Use the Optimize Drives tool

Step 1: Open My computer / This PC => right click on any drive and select Properties .

Step 2: Select the Tool (1) => Optimize (2) .

Step 3: In the Media type section, we will distinguish between SSD and HDD. If the hard drive has a Solid State Drive code , it is an SSD and a hard drive has a Hard disk drive code .

Method 4. Check your computer using an SSD or HDD with Pirifom Speccy software

Step 1: You access the link https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy and download the Speccy software .

You then install the software and wait for the software to scan for hardware parameters in your computer.

Step 2 : You move to Storage (1) . Here we have information on the storage drives on the computer listed in the next section (2) . If it is an SSD, we will see the word SSD next to it.

For drives with unclear information, you can look up the code on Google. Try clicking on the name of the drive as shown below and we find the Form Factor line : 3.5 inch ie 3.5 inch HDD hard drive for desktop.

With the guide to checking the computer using an SSD or HDD in the article, we can easily identify the type of hard drive installed on your computer without having to extract it. Good luck!