This post will tell you how to check if your Windows 11/10 PC is using a Hard Disk Drive or a Solid State Drive (HDD or SDD). Windows can run on both SSDs & HDDs.

What Hard Disk do I have? Do I have a SSD, HDD or Hybrid Drive? How to check the Specifications & RPM of the Hard Drive of your Windows computer?

Think your hard drive might be failing? Here’s how to test your SSD or HDD and catch problems early.

Windows: I recently had a suspicion that something was up with my hard drive. Spending a little time to figure out what was going on—and to confirm ...

For an SSD, the status will say "OK" and note when the TRIM command was last run. By default, optimization should run once a week, but if it looks like it hasn't run in a while, select the drive ...

Windows 11 update linked to odd HDD/SSD bug: drives may vanish when moving/downloading large files. Microsoft can't reproduce the issue or see telemetry spikes, and has no official support reports. If ...

The newest Windows supports the TRIM command, which helps keep SSD performance optimized. We recommend not replacing your XP laptop’s hard drive with an SSD. Does your laptop’s BIOS support SSDs?