Timeline for How to know if a disk is an SSD or an HDD
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| S Mar 1, 2022 at 14:09 | history | suggested | Addison | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added note about sudo, and summarised results.
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| Feb 9, 2019 at 22:45 | comment | added | vidarlo | On a VPS hardware's virtualized. You can't really tell if your files are stored on a HDD, cached, or stored on a SSD. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 20:46 | comment | added | qqibrow | doesn't work for me. I find SSD and HDD produce similar result. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://serverfault.com/ with https://serverfault.com/
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| Aug 16, 2016 at 1:40 | comment | added | trr | On my VPS without an SSD this provides results like your SSD example. I believe this may be fooled by "hybrid" (SSD cached HDD) setups. | |
| Jun 10, 2016 at 4:57 | comment | added | itoctopus | This is a good answer and it does work across the board. The thing is some HDDs are quite fast and the results can be similar to those of SSDs. Still, this answer provides a good metric. | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 10:48 | comment | added | the_nuts | I have a non-ssd, RAID10, and my results are: real 0m1.351s - user: 0m0.307s - sys: 0m0.560s | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 14:38 | history | answered | dav | CC BY-SA 3.0 |