How Do I Know If I Have SSD or HDD Windows 10?
If you need to know whether your Windows 10 PC has a SSD or HDD for storage, there are a few different ways of finding out. Here’s the quickest solution in Windows 10 to find out if your storage is SDD- or HDD-based.
How Do I Find Out What Type of Hard Drive I Have?
Another method to check what type of hard drive you have is to use the PowerShell or Command Prompt to find out. It’s a little more involved but still fairly simple. Here’s what to do.
How Do You Check Which SSD You Have?
Another method to check your hard drive type is to use Device Manager. Here’s where to look for it.
How Do I Know If I Have SSD or HDD on macOS?
Checking what type of hard drive you have on macOS is different to Windows. Here’s where to look.
What Difference Does My Hard Drive Type Make?
It might seem like there’s no difference between SSD or HDD but there are some fundamental things that make each stand out. Here’s a quick look at them.
SSDs are faster. SSDs are a lot faster than conventional HDDs as they use a solid state drive method instead of spinning disks like a regular HDD. HDDs can last longer. It’s only possible to write to a SSD a certain amount of times. That’s a large number of times for the average user running into the tens of thousands but a conventional HDD can last even longer. Whichever you choose, it’s far more likely that you’ll upgrade the PC a long time before this becomes an issue.SSDs are smaller. Thanks to NVMe technology, SSDs are typically much, much smaller than HDDs which means they’re well suited to increasingly small and lightweight laptops and other devices.
