How to Find Out if You Have Standard Hard Drives (HDDs) or Solid State Drives (SSDs)

By | May 26, 2020
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How to Find Out if You Have Standard Hard Drives (HDDs) or Solid State Drives (SSDs)

Right-click on the Windows 10 Start button. Click “Run”. In the Run box type dfrgui and press Enter.

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Look under “Media type”. Hard drives show up as “Hard disk drive” and Solid State Drives (SSDs) show up as “Solid state drive”.

4 thoughts on “How to Find Out if You Have Standard Hard Drives (HDDs) or Solid State Drives (SSDs)

    1. infoave Post author

      Solid-state is faster and lasts longer. But most average users won’t be able to notice that much difference. Solid-state drives are more expensive and have less capacity than regular hard drives.

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