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Old 06-07-2011
Information About Solid State Disk in Linux
Hello,
I have few HDD and SSD installed in my RHEL 5 server. I want to know which disk are SDD and which are HDD. What command should I use?
Thanks
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Old 06-07-2011
smartctl -i /dev/sda

Monitoring Hard Drive Health on Linux with smartmontools | Random Bits

Manpage of SMARTCTL
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Old 06-07-2011
Hello,
Thanks for answer. Don't we have some built in utility like hdparm or fdisk to get the information?

regards
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Old 06-07-2011
Also realize that if you are using SSD with Linux, you may want to change the I/O scheduler on that volume to something like noop. There's no reason to try to queue based on head patterns when there's no head.
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