What Are SSD Health Check and Diagnostic Tools? Most SSD health check tools test the transfer speed, measure performance, optimize the SSD, and even allow secure erasing of SSD data. There are many SSD health check tools, and the most effective tools are often free and provided by SSD manufacturers.

So, an SSD health check is essential, especially for large organizations where data transfer speed plays an important role. However, the performance of the SSDs can decrease over time.

While HDDs’ data transfer speed is generally 30 to 150 megabytes per second (MBps), a standard SSD can perform at speeds of 500 MBps, and NVMe SSDs can achieve up to 3,000 to 3,500 MBps. If you ever want to have more than one partition, then during the wizard, just make sure to specify a partition size less than the total size of the disk, and then after that partition is created you'll still have a block of Unallocated space, in which case repeat that wizard as necessary to create additional partitions.Solid-state drives (SSDs) have already taken the place of hard disk drives (HDD), as SSDs perform faster compared to conventional HDDs. After the disk is initialized, it should show as it does in your screenshot, namely as a Basic, Online disk, and then you just do what I mentioned at the beginning of this post. The latter is a BIT better if you don't have to worry about the disk being readable on Windows XP, but it's not a huge deal. If the disk is less than 2TB, you'll probably have a choice between MBR and GPT. You'd first right-click that and choose 'Initialize Disk'. For future reference if you want to use Disk Management, if the disk is completely uninitialized, as new internal disks out of the box are (same with disks that have had the 'clean' command I mentioned above run against them), it will be noted as Not Ininitialized in the little gray info tile just to the left of that 'Unallocated' box. At that point in Disk Management, you would have had to right-click the 'Unallocated' block in the lower area of Disk Management and clicked New Simple Volume, then stepped through the wizard.

Chris happy to help, and glad you're sorted! I can now see the screenshot you posted.

Kingston disk manager