Welcome to #cybertiptuesday! Continuing our conversation on speeding up your PC, if you're still running on a standard rotational hard drive (HDD), you probably want to take a sledgehammer to your PC every time it boots up.
To be effective, you should have a solid state drive (SSD). An HDD has moving parts and must spin to the spot on the drive to find the data you request. SSDs don't have moving parts. Data is read/written through 'cells' which perform at a much faster rate.
To determine if you have an SSD or HDD follow these steps:
PC
Click Windows Key + S to open search menu
Type PowerShell and press <enter>
PowerShell will enter
Type (or copy/paste) the following: Get-PhysicalDisk | Format-Table -AutoSize
Under MediaType, you will see what type of drive you have
Mac
Click the Apple logo in the top-right corner
Click "About this Mac"
Click Storage
Under the hard drive icon there will be a description of the hard drive (Flash Storage = SSD)
If you are still running on a rotational drive (HDD), we would recommend replacing that ASAP! #hddvsssd #speedupyourpc
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