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I had recently bought a laptop. Among the chief reason why I was compelled to buy it was the fact that "it had a 128 GB SSD".
Upon inspection, I can't seem to directly confirm it. I tried three different ways to arrive at the disk media type, but it all said the same thing: Fixed hard disk.
Does this mean that the laptop actually contains a hard drive rather than an SSD?
user236999
Posted 2019-10-02T01:40:05.200
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To answer my own question:
You can check the media type of a drive by going to Defragment and Optimize your devices
I had just learned about it now. Regards to those who contributed.
user236999
Posted 2019-10-02T01:40:05.200
Reputation: 37
That mis-identifies one of my SSDs. I wouldn't trust that. – David Schwartz – 2019-10-02T03:47:46.707
1@fixer1234: It's fine to use it on an SSD, because it actually performs SSD-specific tasks when it detects an SSD. (For HDDs it'll perform defragmentation, for SSDs and "thin-provisioned" volumes it'll send TRIM or other apropriate discard command.) – user1686 – 2019-10-02T04:51:51.993
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Open Device Manager and look under Disk Drive(s). What drives do you see?
That will be the reliable source to tell you what you have.
You can put the identifier from Device Manager into Google and it will tell you what it is.
John
Posted 2019-10-02T01:40:05.200
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Thank you for your answer. I did exactly as you instructed, and it shows the device type as "Disk drives". – user236999 – 2019-10-02T03:02:00.523
@user236999 I don't think you did as instructed. The instruction was to obtain the identifier from under the "Disk Drive" tab and search for it on Google. – David Schwartz – 2019-10-02T03:46:47.750
1"Fixed" differentiates an internal drive from a removable (e.g., USB) drive. SSDs are designed to mimic a hard drive so that they are plug and play on a hard drive interface. The fact that the system identified it as a "hard drive" doesn't mean a hard drive was installed. It just means the system sees it and is treating it as it would a hard drive. To verify the actual hardware, you can look at it if it is in an accessible compartment, or as John describes, find it's identifier and look it up. – fixer1234 – 2019-10-02T03:04:24.463