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Is there a quick way to understand a type of the "storage" on Linux? Is it a HDD or SSD (or NVMe)?
It's already known that the host is a physical machine and not a VM.
The first thing I though about was rotational flag under /sys/block/<device>/queue/ directory. But in my experience even for SSD devices it may contain "1" value.
The second way and more realistic and truthful was a latency. It's a bit harder to measure (some work with /proc/diskstats), but looks more preferable.



Is there any other ways? It's important to mention that I don't need to know exact model of the "storage", just its type.






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    Is there a quick way to understand a type of the "storage" on Linux? Is it a HDD or SSD (or NVMe)?
    It's already known that the host is a physical machine and not a VM.
    The first thing I though about was rotational flag under /sys/block/<device>/queue/ directory. But in my experience even for SSD devices it may contain "1" value.
    The second way and more realistic and truthful was a latency. It's a bit harder to measure (some work with /proc/diskstats), but looks more preferable.



    Is there any other ways? It's important to mention that I don't need to know exact model of the "storage", just its type.






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      Is there a quick way to understand a type of the "storage" on Linux? Is it a HDD or SSD (or NVMe)?
      It's already known that the host is a physical machine and not a VM.
      The first thing I though about was rotational flag under /sys/block/<device>/queue/ directory. But in my experience even for SSD devices it may contain "1" value.
      The second way and more realistic and truthful was a latency. It's a bit harder to measure (some work with /proc/diskstats), but looks more preferable.



      Is there any other ways? It's important to mention that I don't need to know exact model of the "storage", just its type.






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      Is there a quick way to understand a type of the "storage" on Linux? Is it a HDD or SSD (or NVMe)?
      It's already known that the host is a physical machine and not a VM.
      The first thing I though about was rotational flag under /sys/block/<device>/queue/ directory. But in my experience even for SSD devices it may contain "1" value.
      The second way and more realistic and truthful was a latency. It's a bit harder to measure (some work with /proc/diskstats), but looks more preferable.



      Is there any other ways? It's important to mention that I don't need to know exact model of the "storage", just its type.






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          How about something like sudo smartctl -a /dev/<device> | grep Rotation -- if this returns Rotation Rate: Solid State Device, then that's an SSD. Not sure if this bullet-proof method, either.






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            Looks good, it works even with drives attached through RAID cards.

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          A simple command:



          sudo lshw -c disk





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          • Also looks interesting, but output of lshw doesn't show explicit info about "rotational" capability. I can make a conslusion using sector size value but it's indirect sign

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          How about something like sudo smartctl -a /dev/<device> | grep Rotation -- if this returns Rotation Rate: Solid State Device, then that's an SSD. Not sure if this bullet-proof method, either.






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          How about something like sudo smartctl -a /dev/<device> | grep Rotation -- if this returns Rotation Rate: Solid State Device, then that's an SSD. Not sure if this bullet-proof method, either.






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            Looks good, it works even with drives attached through RAID cards.

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          How about something like sudo smartctl -a /dev/<device> | grep Rotation -- if this returns Rotation Rate: Solid State Device, then that's an SSD. Not sure if this bullet-proof method, either.






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            Looks good, it works even with drives attached through RAID cards.

            – lesovsky
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            Looks good, it works even with drives attached through RAID cards.

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          Looks good, it works even with drives attached through RAID cards.

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          Looks good, it works even with drives attached through RAID cards.

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          A simple command:



          sudo lshw -c disk





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          • Also looks interesting, but output of lshw doesn't show explicit info about "rotational" capability. I can make a conslusion using sector size value but it's indirect sign

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          sudo lshw -c disk





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          • Also looks interesting, but output of lshw doesn't show explicit info about "rotational" capability. I can make a conslusion using sector size value but it's indirect sign

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          A simple command:



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          • Also looks interesting, but output of lshw doesn't show explicit info about "rotational" capability. I can make a conslusion using sector size value but it's indirect sign

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          • Also looks interesting, but output of lshw doesn't show explicit info about "rotational" capability. I can make a conslusion using sector size value but it's indirect sign

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          Also looks interesting, but output of lshw doesn't show explicit info about "rotational" capability. I can make a conslusion using sector size value but it's indirect sign

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