How to Confirm if the Disk Drive is an SSD

This article applies to:

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard (Windows & Mac)

Introduction

If you want to know which type of hard drive is installed on your computer, please try 2 easy ways to check if your drive is a Solid State (SSD) or a standard platter hard drive (HDD).

For Windows:

1. Check in Task Manager

2. Use Windows PowerShell
 

For MacOS:

1. Check via System Report (No technical skills required)

2. Check via Terminal (For advanced users)

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Check in Tassk Manager

1. Press "Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Esc" to the Task Manager.

2. Select the Performance tab. Your PC's drives are labeled as Disk 0, Disk 1, etc. Under the name and letter of each hard drive, you'll see if it's an HDD, an SSD, or a removable drive such as a USB flash drive.

Use WindowsPowerShell

1. Open the Windows Search bar. Click the magnifying glass located on the left-hand side of your toolbar.

2. Type PowerShell. Select Windows PowerShell from the given results. 

3. Type Get-PhysicalDisk . This will pull up a chart displaying the physical disk drives installed on your PC.

4. Find your drive type under "MediaType". The MediaType column will read either HDD or SSD for each of your hard drives.

 

Check via System Report

1. Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen.
2. Select About This Mac.
3. Click the System Report button (on some macOS versions, it may be labeled "More Info" or "System Information").
4. In the left sidebar, under the Hardware section, select Storage.
5. In the main panel on the right, look for the Medium Type column.
   - If it says SSD, your drive is a Solid State Drive.
   - If it says HDD, your drive is a Hard Disk Drive.

Alternatively, you can directly check in the Storage tab under "About This Mac" — if it indicates "Flash Storage" or "Solid State Drive", your Mac is equipped with an SSD.

1. Open Terminal from '/Applications/Utilities/'.
2. In the Terminal window, type the following command and press Enter:

system_profiler SPSerialATADataType

Or use a more direct filtering command:
system_profiler SPStorageDataType | grep "Media Type"

3. The output will show your drive's media type as either SSD or HDD.

You can also use the following alternative command to quickly check:
diskutil info / | grep "Media Type"

Note:
On Macs with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4 chips), the built-in SSD is typically recognized directly by the system as an SSD without additional configuration.

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