<font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2">Hi all,<br><br>Is there any way to find out the type of the connected USB disk (Hard disk/SDD)? <br><br>AFAIK there is a significant performance difference in Harddisk/SDD devices.<br>
<br>Previously i though that the rotational flag in the sysfs will distinguish them but it is same for both the types<br></font><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br>#cat /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">1 for both flash & HDD</span><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2"> <br><br>Is there any way to distinguish the USB Harddisk or SDD drives ? <br><br>Thanks & Regards,<br>
Manish </font><br>