How to confirm a solid state drive is installed on your laptop?

I own a sony vaio vpc z1 290x which was ordered with 512GB (256GBx2) solid state drives. I don't know how to confirm they were actually installed. Nowhere have I been able to see a reference to the SS drives, either in device manager or in systems/hardware. I started the defrag routine for the C drive (read somewhere that ss drives cannot be defragged) and halted it before it finished the first pass, but it did indicate 17% was defragged. Should I try TRIM command, or is there another definitive way of confirming one way or the other that a SS drive is installed? Thanks in advance.

 

Automatic scheduled defragmentation is disabled for SSDs in Windows. You can still "tell" it to defrag, but there is no benefit. On the other hand, the SSDs are in RAID so I don't know if Windows sees the drives as SSDs.

TRIM doesn't work in RAID either. However, most SSDs have their own built in "garbage collection" routines.

You can perhaps confirm the model of your hard drive(s) with the application called "Hard Disk Sentinel" which can tell you the model of the hard drives in the computer. You should have either Samsung or Toshiba drives, names of which you can search in Google.

On the "Overview" page, it should also say something like: "The status of the solid state disk is PERFECT."
For regular drives, it would instead say: "The hard disk status is PERFECT."

 

If you have a dvd drive, then you have SSD's as well. There is physically no place to put a spinning hard drive if you have the DVD drive as well.

 

If you launch the Intel Rapid Storage Technology program and click on manage, it provides details of your drives, including whether they are solid state.

 

Run a benchmark - HDTune et. al. - and you'll soon know. Any decent system information utility should also tell you the details. Try SiW (System information for Windows).

 

you can also check on raid setup after the POST