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Windows 10's latest Insider preview gives Task Manager a simple, stellar storage enhancement |
May 16, 2019
On Wednesday, Windows Insider preview build 18898 revealed a small but exciting Task Manager improvement coming to a future version of Windows 10: The Performance tab will tell you if a disk is a solid-state drive or a slower mechanical hard drive. The ability to distinguish between SSD and HDD “is particularly helpful in cases where you have multiple disks listed, so you can differentiate between them,” the announcement post says.Indeed, that’s the very reason I’m so enthusiastic about the addition. Storage drives frequently outlive PC builds, so my DIY Franken-system is loaded with a variety of drive types from past machines. (And hey, storage-stuffed SSDs are only getting cheaper.) Currently, Task Manager only labels each with its assigned drive letter. Identifying the disk type as you see in the image below should make it much easier to keep track of which data belongs to which storage drive. Yes please!To read this article in full, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3395501/windows-10-insider-preview-18898-task-manager-storage-disk-ssd-or-hard-drive.html#tk.rss_all
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