From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Dec 1 11:32:37 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B77C5F2ED for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:32:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@petermann-it.de) Received: from d2ux.org (d2ux.org [5.9.151.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8731D8F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@petermann-it.de) Received: from d2ux.org (unknown [10.0.0.4]) by d2ux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CAD2B90FA; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:25:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at d2ux.org Received: from d2ux.org ([10.0.0.4]) by d2ux.org (d2ux.org [10.0.0.4]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id G7_lswcKGuYL; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:25:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from sogo (unknown [10.0.0.5]) by d2ux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A5E2B90F2; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:25:47 +0100 (CET) content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" in-reply-to: from: "Matthias Petermann" X-Forward: 127.0.0.1 date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:25:47 +0100 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Michele Pes" to: "Stefano Garzarella" MIME-Version: 1.0 message-id: <935-58400880-ed-6b8b4580@136822448> subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A?= How to detect if a disk is an SSD User-Agent: SOGoMail 3.1.4 content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:32:37 -0000 Hello Stefano, one option might be to check the kernel log via % dmesg I would expect some entries like: ada4 at ata0 bus 0 scbus4 target 1 lun 0 ada4: ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device ada4: Serial Number S2NRNXAGC00170D ada4: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada4: 114473MB (234441648 512 byte sectors) ada4: quirks=3D0x3<4K,NCQ=5FTRIM=5FBROKEN> which includes the model number / name. Feeding this into Google should= provide clarity if it is a SSD or not. Best regards, Matthias Am Donnerstag, Dezember 01, 2016 12:13 CET, Stefano Garzarella schrieb: > Hi guys, > we are using FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and we need to check via software i= f the > disk connected to our remote machine is SSD or not. > > Is there any way (sysctl, etc) to get this information? > > Thanks! > > Best Regards, > Stefano Garzarella > > -- > Stefano Garzarella > Software Engineer > > email: s.garzarella@evidence.eu.com > skype: garzarella > > Evidence Srl > http://www.evidence.eu.com > Via Carducci 56 - Localita' Ghezzano > 56010 S.Giuliano Terme Pisa - Italy > Phone: +39 050 99 11 122 > Fax: +39 050 99 10 812 > =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freeb= sd.org" -- Matthias Petermann | www.petermann-it.de Innovative IT-L=C3=B6sungen, Systemintegration, FreeBSD/Unix-Support Wildparkring 13, 01458 Ottendorf-Okrilla | Mobil: (0178) 523 42 22 GnuPG: 0x5C3E6D75 | 5930 86EF 7965 2BBA 6572 C3D7 7B1D A3C3 5C3E 6D75