{"id":1808,"date":"2014-12-16T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milesweb.com\/hosting-faqs\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2018-05-18T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:22:31","slug":"how-to-check-if-disk-is-ssd-or-normal-hdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-check-if-disk-is-ssd-or-normal-hdd\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Check If Disk Is SSD Or Normal HDD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to know if HDD connected to your server is SSD (Solid State Drive) OR a normal HDD, you can simply login to your server via SSH &amp; execute below command. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>[root@server ~]# cat \/sys\/block\/sda\/queue\/rotational<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You should get 1 for normal HDD &amp; 0 for a SSD (Solid State Drive). 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