How do I find hard drive information in Linux?
Try the following commands for SCSI and hardware RAID based devices:
- sdparm Command – fetch SCSI / SATA device information.
- scsi_id Command – queries a SCSI device via the SCSI INQUIRY vital product data (VPD).
- Use smartctl To Check Disk Behind Adaptec RAID Controllers.
- Use smartctl Check Hard Disk Behind 3Ware RAID Card.
How do I find disk information in Windows?
Open the System Information file. In the System Information window, click the + symbol next to Components. Click the + next to Storage and click Drives. In the right-side of the window, you see information about the hard drive including its capacity and serial number.
What are the types of hard disk?
Currently, we can group hard drives into four types:
- Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)
- Serial ATA (SATA)
- Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
- Solid State Drives (SSD)
- NVM Express.
How do I see disk in command prompt?
Using Command Line & diskpart
- Open a command prompt: Start > Run > cmd.
- Start up the DISKPART utility: C:\ Users\Administrators>diskpart.
- Select the disk you wish to view (example uses disk 1, it can be any valid disk number): DISKPART> select disk 1.
- View the details of the selected disk: DISKPART> detail disk.
How do I know if my hard drive is SSD?
Simply press the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run box, type dfrgui and press Enter. When the Disk Defragmenter window is shown, look for the Media type column and you can find out which drive is solid state drive (SSD), and which one is hard disk drive (HDD).
How to get hard disk information from / PROC and or?
Refer kernel docs for block device subsystem. stat.txt is for block device I/O stats. Kernel/userspace ABI docs is also useful, see sysfs-block for comprehensive list of available sysfs entries. You can also get block device capacities from /proc/partitions.
What is the purpose of the / proc directory?
/proc directory stores lots of system status and hardware information. The proc (mounted at /proc) filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem which is used as an interface to kernel data structures. For example, your CPU related information such as number of CPUs, type of CPU (AMD or Intel) etc can be gathered from /proc/cpuinfo.
How to check logical hard drive in SQL Server?
By: Percy Reyes | Updated: 2015-02-23 | Comments (3) | Related: More > Database Administration One of the most important SQL Server DBA tasks is checking logical hard drive details such as the total capacity, free disk space, and used space by the SQL Server data and log files.