{{tag>troubleshooting disk}}

====== Spining disk or SSD? ======
Use this to find out if the disk is regular spinning hard drive or SSD

  lsblk -d -o name,rota

or

  cat /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational

You should get 1 for hard disks and 0 for a SSD.

<WRAP center round tip 60%>
Does not work when the disks are in RAID array. Reports 1.
</WRAP>


====== Tested on ======
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====== References ======