How do I verify my T510 actually has the solid state drive that I ordered?

My machine sometimes makes a loud noise like a hard drive going nuts when it is moving alot of data (as I move data from my old machine to this one). I ordered it with a solid state drive but wonder if a regular hard drive was put in the machine by mistake. I checked Windows system information on the disks and it says I have a "fixed hard disc". I am not familiar with Windows 7 and wonder if it might say that even if it is a SSD. 
Thanks

@ the OP, what does device manager say?
Z.
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