How do I tell if my PC has SSD?

[bigski112]

I'm wondering whether my computer has SSD? How do I tell?

Thanks.

[Andy]

Unless you put it in yourself, very unlikely. You can't buy many PC's with them yet unless it is a very high end gaming machine. Laptops are a little more likely but still not common.

Go into device manager, look at the hard drive model and Google it. That's the easiest way.

[bigski112]

OK Thanks, did a search and it turns out my HDD does not have SSD.

Thanks again.

[Homaaa]

Your HDD can't "have" SSD. HDs and SSDs are entirely different technologies. What you're talking about might be hybrid hard disks or something like that.

[DMax]

Are SSDs those Solid State Drives that use DRAM or non-volatile NAND flash memory as storage? I highly doubt they would be in many PCs at the moment since Currant HDs are still quite common and widely used and SSDs are not a mainstream replacement for HDDs like DVD was over VHS or CDs over tapes.

Yes you probably mean HHD (Hybrid Hard Drive) which have a large type of buffer and integrate cache using non-volatile memory or even a small solid-state drive. These may be more common if or as more companies produce them but I don't know of that many, or any prebuilt PCs that would have them, unless you custom built it yourself.