Since SSDs provide us a rapid increase in performances, it is important that kernel recogonizes the correct device type and react accordingly. Traditioanlly, the block layer has been driven by the need to avoid head seeks; the use of quite a bit of CPU time could be justified if it managed to avoid a single seek. SSDs, by eliminating seeks and rotational delays, care a lot less about seeks, so expanding a bunch of CPU time to avoid them no longer makes sense.
There are various ways of detecting SSDs in the hardware, but they don't always work, especially with the lower-quality devices. So the block layer exports a flag under
/sys/block/<device>/queue/rotational
which can be used to override the system's notion of what kind of storage device it is dealing with.
To change the value of rotational, simply do a:
# echo 0 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/rotational Then add to /etc/rc.local # vi /etc/rc.local add echo 0 > /sys/block/sdb/queue/rotational
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