{"id":10954,"date":"2018-01-17T04:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T04:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2018-01-17T04:27:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T04:27:14","slug":"find-if-your-drive-is-ssd-or-hdd-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/find-if-your-drive-is-ssd-or-hdd-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Find If Your Drive is SSD or HDD in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can I know whether a disk is a solid-state drive (SSD) or hard disk? Is there a way to check if I have a SSD or HDD without having to open the laptop itself to see what&#8217;s inside it? Here are 2 easy methods to find if your drive is SSD or HDD in Windows 10\/8\/7, without using third-party software.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Find If Your Drive is SSD or HDD Using Disk Defragmenter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simply press the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run box, type <strong>dfrgui<\/strong> and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dfrgui.png\" width=\"401\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-disk-defragmenter-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disk Defragmenter<\/a> window is shown, look for the <strong>Media type<\/strong> column and you can find out which drive is solid state drive (SSD), and which one is hard disk drive (HDD).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/optimize-drives.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10958\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Find If Your Drive is SSD or HDD Using PowerShell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/5-ways-to-run-powershell-as-administrator-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open the PowerShell as administrator<\/a>, and type the following command and press Enter:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get-PhysicalDisk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/find-if-your-drive-is-ssd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10959\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The command will list all physical disks connected to your computer. The <strong>MediaType<\/strong> parameter can help you identify what type is your disk drive, HDD or SSD.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I know whether a disk is a solid-state drive (SSD) or hard disk? Is there a way to check if I have a SSD or HDD without having to open the laptop itself to see what&#8217;s inside it? Here are 2 easy methods to find if your drive is SSD or HDD in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[3671,3672],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-check-ssd-or-hdd-windows-10","tag-how-to-check-if-disk-is-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10965,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions\/10965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}