HDD detected as SSD

HDD ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD is detected as SSD

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yeah, sadly this is happening with all the latest builds of Speccy, Dedraggler and CCleaner - but not for all users.

whereas the old versions weren't picking up you had a SSD, now some users are finding the new versions are falsely telling them they do now own a phantom SSD.

looking on the bright side, at least Piriform are finally tackling the long overdue problem of wrongly (or not even) detecting SSD's.

the Admin team is aware of the issue.

Version 1.32 detects the Hitachi HDD in my Lenovo T410 laptop as an SSD, which is wrong. --> http://speccy.piriform.com/results/3GvkSQHhgxnT6Bcg1GzGJMe

Just installed V 1.32.740 of Speccy and the SSD/HDD problem is still the there. Already rolled back Defraggler to V 2.21.993 as well for the same reason.

Is this being worked on??

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12 hours ago, kosimek said:
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No, last word I heard from Admins (about 18months ago) was that the issue could not be repeated in the test labs (or something like that).

there was a rumour they were thinking about maybe putting in some sort of manual, user-controlled switch, that would tell Speccy/DF/CC what your drive types really were but, well, we are still waiting on that too.

Don't know what they're looking for. Defraggler V 2.21.993 that I reverted back to identifies all my drives correctly.

That means that the code in there is accurate and could be reused. Boggles the mind.

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Just had this crop up. After reading a history of mystery regarding the resolution: Color me UnImpressed. This is a core function. No excuse.

it's 2024, and this is still happening. Speccy version 1.32.803 running on Windows 10 Pro 22H2 is detecting my ST1000LM035-1RK172 HDD as a SATA SSD. May be time to find another system spec solution, since this core feature hasn't been fixed after 6 years.

While Speccy is well overdue for an overhaul, in the case of misidentified drive types it's Windows that is the issue.

Speccy gets it's information from Windows, so something on Window that is telling Speccy that it's a SSD.

Basically the way that Windows differentiates a SSD from a HDD is only by the read & write speeds, (Windows recognises SSDs through performance benchmarks in WinSAT).

So Windows can sometimes think that a 'fast' HDD is an SSD.


Conversely it can also sometimes think that a SSD is a HDD.

Even Windows own Optimise/defrag gets the drive wrong at times.

See the question and answer here: <a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/ssd-only-recognised-as-hdd/a565469f-74ee-45bb-9f75-ffbbe9da2aa3" ipsnoembed="true" rel="external nofollow">https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/ssd-only-recognised-as-hdd/a565469f-74ee-45bb-9f75-ffbbe9da2aa3</a>

Even more confusingly different parts of Windows can see the same drive as being different types at different times, so depending on just how you ask (just which part of Windows you query) you can get a different answer.