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I have a machine with both SATA and PCIe SSDs attached. Is there a set of Linux commands (on Ubuntu or CentOS) that I can use to check if a given SSD is SATA or PCIe?
Safdar Iqbal
Posted 2015-04-08T23:06:12.223
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How to check if an attached SSD device is SATA or PCIe on Linux?
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lsblk -io NAME,TYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,FSTYPE,MODEL
will identify all the block devices, i.e., drives. Then, run
sudo hdparm -I /dev/sd*X* | grep SATA
where X is each drive letter found. If the result contains SATA, well, it's the SATA drive.
Alternatively,
lspci
will identify all the PCI devices, including PCIe.
Or, you can look for the NVMe logo on the drive.
K7AAY
Posted 2015-04-08T23:06:12.223
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2I have a M2 drive that I'm pretty sure is using PCIe (it's in the M2 slot on the mobo), but it says SATA all over the place on the second command. I don't understand, I thought it was PCI. There's also a sata controller listed in the lspci – wordsforthewise – 2017-11-16T22:11:55.357
1Many M.2 SSDs simply have a SATA interface. This is most probaby the reason why your M.2 drive is displayed as a SATA device. M.2 SSDs with SATA interface are BTW not faster than regular SATA SSDs (I found out the hard way after I had bought an M.2 and thought it would be much faster than my regular SSD). – zepp.lee – 2018-09-28T11:22:14.157