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How to Check PC Full Specs Windows 10 in

5 Ways [MiniTool News]
By Alisa | Follow | Last Updated January 16, 2020

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Summary
No matter when you want to check the full specifications in Windows 10 PC/laptop/tablet, you
can check the 5 ways in this post. It gives step-by-step guide on how to check PC specs
Windows 10.

When you are buying a new Windows 10 computer, you may want to check the full specs of the
Windows 10 computer. Still, if your Windows 10 PC has problems, you also need to check the
detailed computer specs Windows 10 to help troubleshoot the problem. Besides, to check if an
application can run on your Windows 10 PC, you may also need to check the computer system
configuration for the software compatibility.

So here come to the chase, how to check PC specs Windows 10?

In this tutorial, it provides 5 ways to help you find the full computer specs Windows 10,
including all hardware and software specifications.

You can easily check Windows 10 computer OS version, model number, processor, RAM, drive,
graphics card, BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
firmware, and more with these 5 ways.

How to Check PC Specs Windows 10 through System

Properties
One of the most common ways to check Windows 10 PC specifications is through the System
Properties. You can check basic computer specs like Windows 10 edition, system information of
your Windows 10 computer.

Step 1. Open Windows System Window

Normally you have two ways to open Windows 10 System window.

 You can right-click This PC on computer screen and choose Properties to open
computer system window.
 You can also quickly open Windows System window by pressing the shortcut key: press
Windows and Pause/Break key on the keyboard at the same time.

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Step 2. Check Computer Specs Windows 10

Here in the System Window, you can view basic information about your Windows 10 computer
incl. Windows edition, processor, RAM, system type, computer name, domain, product ID,
Windows activation status, etc.
How to Find Computer Specs Windows 10 from Settings
Through Windows 10 Settings, you can also check basic specs of Windows 10 computer.

You can click Start -> Settings -> System -> About, to check the computer and Windows 10
system specifications.

Under Device specifications, you can find device name, processor, RAM, device ID, product ID,
system type, pen and touch.

In Windows specifications section, you can check the system edition, version, installation date,
Windows 10 OS build.
How to Check PC Specs Windows 10 Using System
Information
Through System Information, you can check the entire computer specs of your Windows 10
PC. Check the guide below.

Step 1 – Open System Information Window

You also have two ways to open Windows System Information Window.
  You can press Windows + R key on the key board to open Windows RUN window first.
Then type msinfo32, and hit Enter button.
 You can also click Start and type System Information. And choose the best match
result System Information.

Step 2 – Find Full Computer Specs Windows 10

In the System Summary, you could check full specifications of Windows 10 device, e.g. OS
version, system model/type, processor, BIOS, RAM details, and more.

In the left panel, there are three categories under System Summary: Hardware Resources,
Components, Software Environment. If you don’t find the graphics card info, you can expand
Components category and click Display to view the information of the graphics in Windows 10
computer.

Tip: You can click File menu in System Information window, and choose Export. Then choose
a destination and type a name to save the system information file into a text file.
How to Check PC Specs Windows 10 with Command
Prompt
Another way to find computer specs Windows 10 is to use Command Prompt.

Step 1. Open Command Prompt Tool

At first, you need to open this PC specs checker – Command Prompt. You have two ways to
open it.
  Just press Windows + R key, then type cmd in the RUN window to open Command
Prompt window.
 Or you can just click Start and type Command Prompt. Then right-click the Command
Prompt result and choose Run as administrator option.

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Step 2. Check Windows 10 Computer Specs

Next you can type systeminfo and hit Enter. Then all your Windows 10 computer specs will be
listed in the window, including OS/system information, processor, RAM, BIOS, Windows 10
update, network information and more.
How to Check Laptop Specs Windows 10 through
PowerShell
The last feasible way to find Windows 10 computer specs is using Windows PowerShell.

Step 1 – Open Windows PowerShell

You can right-click Start and choose Windows PowerShell (Admin) to run PowerShell as
administrator.

Step 2 – Get Windows 10 Computer Specs Information

Then you can type this command line: Get-ComputerInfo. Hit Enter. And then you can check
the computer full specifications in Windows 10.
Through these 5 ways, you can easily check the full specs and system information of your
Windows 10 computer.

Best PC Benchmark Software to Test PC Hard Drive Speed

As for PC speed test, you can easily check hard drive speed in Windows 10 with the best PC
benchmark software – MiniTool Partition Wizard.

MiniTool Partition Wizard is a 100% clean and free hard drive partition manager which is
compatible with Windows 10/8/7. You can easily use it to test hard drive/SSD speed on your
Windows 10 PC, create/resize/extend/merge/split/delete/format/copy/wipe partition,
copy/convert disk, migrate OS, recover data (recover my files), and more.

Download this 100% clean free PC drive partition manager on your Windows 10/8/7 computer,
and follow the simple steps below to check your computer HHD speed for free.

Free Download

Step 1. Open MiniTool Partition Wizard, and click Disk Benchmark button in the toolbar.

Step 2. In the Disk Benchmark window, you can select the PC drive or partition, and set the
Transfer Size, Total Length, Queue Number, Thread Number, Cool Down Time, and Test Mode
(Sequential, Random, and Sequential & Random).

Step 3. Click Start button to start to benchmark PC hard drive read and write speed.
PC Drive Is Full? Use Space Analyzer to Release Free Space
MiniTool Partition Wizard also equips a Space Analyzer function to allow you to analyze the PC
hard drive storage space to dig out what occupies the most space of your computer, and lets you
directly delete unnecessary files, folder, programs, etc. in Space Analyzer window.

Step 1. After you enter into the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can click
Space Analyzer function in the toolbar.

Step 2. Then choose a drive or partition and click Scan to analyze the Windows 10 PC disk
space usage.

Step 3. After the scan is finished, if will list all files in the scan result window. You can check
the usage rate, size, number of items of each folder. You can find out and delete those
unnecessary large files and folders to release more free space for your PC.
PC Specs Test – Check If Your PC Can Run a Game
After you use the ways above to check the full PC specs in Windows 10, now you know your
computer processor, CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. If you want to check if a game can run on your PC,
you can check the system requirements for the game to run on PC.

Generally you can quickly find the system requirements for running this game on the game’s
website or on a site where it is selling, for instance, you can find the information on each game’s
page on the Steam store.

Then you can compare your PC specs with the system requirements of the game, pay attention to
the processor, RAM and GPU requirements particularly.

There are some differences between the minimum and recommended requirements. You can run
the game on your PC if your Windows 10 computer meet the minimum requirements of the
game. But if you want to have a better game playing experience, meeting the recommended
requirements would be better.

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Verdict
As for how to check PC specs Windows 10, this post provides 5 ways with detailed step-by-step
guides for you. You can also easily conduct a PC benchmark, analyze PC space usage, and
manage PC hard drive/partition using MiniTool Partition Wizard if you need.

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 Can the SSD Lifespan Be Calculated? Details Are in This Post

Can the SSD Lifespan Be Calculated? Details

Are in This Post [MiniTool News]
By Stella | Follow | Last Updated January 16, 2020

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When using an SSD to save your important files, you may want to know the SSD lifespan?
However, the fact is that you are unable to get the exact value. Even so, you can calculate the
estimated value based on some special data. Now, see more details in this post.

Is It Possible to Know the Exact SSD Lifespan?

It is an undeniable fact that SSDs may wear out over time. Every time you write data to a NAND
cell, the cell will be slightly degraded. When the write operations are enough, a NAND cell will
fail eventually.

However, we still can’t make a universal consensus on the real SSD lifespan and when the
device will likely fail. SSD lifespan test is helpful to determine when the format of the storage
does and doesn’t make sense.

Tip: Do you know how to recover data from a corrupted drive on your computer? Indeed, you
can use a professional data recovery software to do this job. MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a
good choice.

Most of you may think that SSDs are more reliable for mainstream use. However, many cases
indicate that SSDs lack of durability. Why? After all, there are different classes of drives and
they have different characteristics. For example, an SLC disk has far better durability than a
QLC disk.
Meanwhile, the way that a disk is used can also influence the SSD lifespan. The write-intensive
applications on the SSD will largely degrade the device, while the application that only perform
occasional writes will have less influence on the SSD lifespan.

How long an SSD will last? Here, you should accept the fact that the number of program/erase
cycles on the device can determine the SSD lifespan. Considering this, manufactures supply
some metrics that can be helpful to predict an SSD lifespan. But, it is still impossible to calculate
the exact fail time of the drive.

SSD Lifespan Calculator

To examine the SSD lifespan, you should know these two important factors: the total terabytes
written over time and the drive writes per day. The manufacture will supply you with the total
number of terabytes that are estimated to be written over time.

Here, we will show you an example.

Suppose that there is a computer that is using a 1 TB Western Digital SSD (WDS100T2BOA).

According to the information from the manufacturer, the Terabytes Written (TBW) rating of the
drive is 500 which mean that you are able to write about 500TB to it over its life. However, it
doesn’t mean that each NAND cell supports 500 program/erase cycles. Most SSDs have extra
NAND cells on it and they can take over the cells that are heavily worn.

The value of the drive writes per day is just an estimate that is based on how you use the drive.

For instance, if you write 2TB data per day to a 1TB SSD, it means that there are two drive
writes per day. Suppose that the drive suppose 500 TBW, the SS lifespan calculator should be
500 TBW / 2 TB per day = 250 days, which is roughly 8 months.

But, this is just an estimate value rather than an exact value. Firstly, the cell durability is usually
an expected range. Secondly, the disk is rarely used evenly. Even there is wear leveling, some
areas of the drive can be written to more frequently than others.

Another factor of SSD lifespan is the Mean Time to Failure rating of the drive. The manufacture
also provides this value based on the results of endurance testing. For example, the WD drive
mentioned above is reported to have a Mean Time to Failure rating of 1.75 million hours.

However, it doesn’t mean that this SSD lifespan is 200 years. The real meaning of Mean Time to
Failure is“the number of total hours of service of all devices divided by the number of devices.”

We don’t know how WD gets the number of 1.75 million hours. Here, we make some
assumptions.

Suppose that WD tested 17,500 drives and the SSD lifespan test lasted for 5,000 hours. During
the test, 50 drives failed. Then, the SSD lifespan calculator should be:
17,500 drives * 5,000 hours of testing each) / 50 failures = 1,750,000

This also gave the value of 1.75 million hours. So, you see that this value doesn’t indicate the
lifespan of the drive. However, a drive with higher value must be more reliable than a drive with
lower value.

Bottom Line
All in all, no formula can be used to test the exact SSD lifespan. But, both TBW and Mean Time
to Failure can give you some hints.

To protect data on SSD, you can back it up regularly with a dedicated backup software, like
MiniTool ShadowMaker.

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