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How to check which SSD or HDD I have?

Want to know which SSD or hard drive your computer is using? Well, there are several ways to do so and we are going to cover all of them in this article. The operating system can give you enough information about your drive without using any third-party software. However, we are going to use third-party software as well to get detailed information.

Getting information about your drive can be helpful and important in many cases. It could be because you want to upgrade or buy a new SSD or hard drive that is compatible with your system. Whatever the case is, let’s see how you can get information about the installed drives on your computer. Let’s get started.

1. Check SSD/HDD using System Information

The system information menu can provide some basic details about your drive, such as the manufacturer, model, total size, partitions, etc. You can check information about any number of drives connected to your computer.

  1. To access the system information menu, just search for System Information in the Windows search.
system information
  1. Inside the system information menu, open the Components section by clicking the collapse icon (+). Inside the component section, collapse Storage and then click Disks in the Storage section.
Find Disks in the system information menu

You can use the model number to search the internet and find the specific drive details. In my case, if I search the model on Google, I get these results.

search drive model on google

In some cases, you may not get the specific model number which is exactly the case in my second drive. In that case, we are going to try other methods below.

2. Check SSD/HDD using Task Manager

This one is a really simple way to know the model number of your drive. The first step is to just open the Windows Task Manager. To do so, right-click on the taskbar and click Task Manager.

  1. Inside the Task Manager menu, click the Performance tab and right-click Disk 0 or other disks. Click Copy.
copy disk details from task manager

Now, open a new notepad, and click paste or press Ctrl + V. This would paste the copied information about your drive. The information would include the drive’s model name, capacity, system disk status, type of drive, etc.

Drive information pasted on notepad

The same information can be found using the Device Manager on the disk drives section but we have found the basic information. So, I am not going to discuss that again. Now, let’s see some other methods.

3. Check your SSD/HDD Command Prompt or PowerShell

On Windows:

  1. Let’s run our first simple command in the Command Prompt (As an administrator).

wmic diskdrive get model,name,serialnumber,size,mediatype

drive information in the command prompt

This command will simply give you the drive name, drive type, serial number, and size. Although, it won’t tell you that you have SSD in the MediaType section, it would tell you the drive’s model. The size is written in total bytes and not in GB or TB.

2. The second command is:

wmic diskdrive list /format:list

more drive details in command prompt

This command again doesn’t give you any special information but some more technical stuff like sectors, tracks, size in bytes again, etc.

4. Check your SSD/HDD using BIOS

BIOS and UEFI on different systems and motherboards are different. However, finding the drive details is pretty easy. In most BIOS menus, you can see the information in the main menu or system configuration section. In my case, my MSI motherboard gives these details in two sections. The first one is in the Storage Section in the EZ mode.

drive details in UEFI/BIOS

I can also enable the advanced mode and go to the Settings section to get drive details. Both these features give the details about the name and size of the installed drives.

drive details in UEFI/BIOS

5. Using third-party software

Various software like HWInfo, Speccy, and CrystalDiskInfo can give you detailed information about the storage drive you have on your computer. Below are the drive details that you get with the HWiNFO software.

HWiNFO drive details

These are the details provided by CrystalDiskInfo software.

CrystalDiskInfo details

6. By opening your laptop/desktop

You can gather all the details about the drive by just opening your computer/laptop. Opening a desktop is comparatively easy compared to laptops but most laptops can be opened with a little technical knowledge. Keep in mind opening your laptop may void its warranty in some cases. Also, there is a risk of physical damage while you open up your device.

7. On other Operating Systems

On Linux:

On a Linux system, you can run this command in the terminal and hit Enter:

lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,TYPE

This command will give you the drive name, size, model, and type. To get details on the specific drive, you can use this command in the terminal.

sudo fdisk –1

In return, you’ll get information about all the disk partitions with their sizes, drive names, and partition table information. To get more details along with the SMART data of your SSD, you can run this command in Linux.

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

Make sure to replace /dev/sda with the device name like /dev/sdb, etc. This will give you more details including the health status of your drive.

On macOS:

To check SSD or HDD details in macOS, you can simply do it in the Disk Utility. If you don’t see your drives in the menu, make sure to click View on the top and tick Show All Devices.

check show all devices from View tab
Check drive details in the Disk Utility

I hope this helps!

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