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  1. DAVIDWILDEN
    DavidWilden Win User

    SSD is reported as "Hard Disk Drive" instead of "Solid Sate Drive" in Windows 10 "Optimise...


    Hi,


    I recently cloned my complete Windows 10 installation from a hard drive to a Crucial SSD using the Acronis Cloning software that Crucial supplied. After cloning, I removed the old hard drive and was happy to see that Windows loads fine from the new SDD, and everything seemed to be working fine.


    However I have now noticed that the SSD (which is now my 'Drive C:') is still listed as a 'Hard Disk Drive' when I bring up the Defrag and Optimise Drive app and not as "Solid State Drive".


    This is worrying me as I understood that Windows needs to correctly recognise the drive as a solid state drive in order to apply the correct optimisation policies.


    My question is how can I make Wiondows 10 correctly treat the drive as a Solid State Drive?


    Regards


    Dave

    :)
     
    DavidWilden, Mar 10, 2019
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  2. THRASHZONE
    ThrashZone Win User

    optimise hard drives

    All ssd manufactures that I've seen have their own optimization utilities on their website you can download and use

    An example is Samsung Magician and so on..

    If you truly have a actual hard drive and not a solid state drive

    Use the symbol on the bottom right of your image Turn On.
     
    ThrashZone, Mar 10, 2019
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  3. NEILPZZ
    neilpzz Win User
    optimise hard drives

    SSDs do not have the optimisation option turned on. It can shorten the life of the drive.
     
    neilpzz, Mar 10, 2019
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  4. NAXS_EU
    Naxs_EU Win User

    SSD is reported as "Hard Disk Drive" instead of "Solid Sate Drive" in Windows 10 "Optimise...

    SSDs in RAID 0 marked as Hard disk drive by Windows

    Dear Community,

    Today I'm testing a ThinkPad X240 with a dual mSATA to SATA enclosure. Lots of fun.

    Not unexpected but Windows 10 is of the opinion that my two mSata SSD's are, in reality, hard disks. They are not. We talked about it, it did not help.

    I tried the following:

    Code:
    Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName "H/W RAID0" -MediaType SSD
    This works, until I reboot. After this command, PowerShell reports 'SSD' as media-type instead of 'Unspecified'.

    The 'Optimizes Drives' window, however, still reports a hard disk.

    Is there anyway to permanently make Windows believe I do have an SSD in my ThinkPad?

    Thank you!
     
    Naxs_EU, Mar 10, 2019
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