How to Find Out Hard Disks Serial/Model Number, Disk Size, SATA Type

Can see the serial or model number of your hard disks from the terminal, the below commands are get information lshw, lsblk, hdparm, smartctl, palimpsest.

lshw (Hardware Lister)

  *-disk                  

       description: ATA Disk

       product: ST500LM012 HN-M5

       vendor: Seagate

       physical id: 0.0.0

       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0

       logical name: /dev/sda

       version: 2AR1

       serial: S2RSJ9DCA02798

       size: 465GiB (500GB)

       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos

       configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=4096 signature=00079661

  *-cdrom

       description: DVD-RAM writer

       product: DVD-RAM UJ8D1

       vendor: MATSHITA

       physical id: 0.1.0

       bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0

       logical name: /dev/cdrom

       logical name: /dev/sr0

       version: L.01

       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram

       configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

Find out disk name only:
 

H/W path        Device      Class          Description

======================================================

/0/1/0.0.0      /dev/sda    disk           500GB ST500LM012 HN-M5

/0/1/0.1.0      /dev/cdrom  disk           DVD-RAM UJ8D1

If you could not found the command try to install using yum or apt-get
 

-bash: lshw: command not found

If you dont have the lshw command just install using yum command

...

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size

============================================

 lshw                    i386       2.15-1.el5.rf    rpmforge          1.4 M

 lshw-gui                i386       2.15-1.el5.rf    rpmforge          417 k

===============================================

Total download size: 1.8 M

Is this ok [y/N]: y

...

Installed: lshw.i386 0:2.15-1.el5.rf lshw-gui.i386 0:2.15-1.el5.rf

Complete!

lsblk

lsblk is used to get infroamtion about all block devices and it not shows infromation about RAM.
 
List out block device like model,kname,size and type,
 

MODEL            KNAME   SIZE TYPE

ST500LM012 HN-M5 sda   465.8G disk

                 sda1    464G part

                 sda2      1K part

                 sda5    1.8G part

DVD-RAM UJ8D1    sr0    1024M rom

or

major minor  #blocks  name



   8        0  488386584 sda

   8        1  486511616 sda1

   8        2          1 sda2

   8        5    1871872 sda5

  11        0    1048575 sr0

hdparm

Hdparm is used to check the hard drive read and writing speed.

Redhat/CentOS
 
Ubuntu/Debian
 
Show harddisk details like Model/Serial number, configuration, Capabilities, features.
 

/dev/sda:



ATA device, with non-removable media

    Model Number:       ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB                   

    Serial Number:      S2RSJ9DCA02798      

    Firmware Revision:  2AR10002

    Transport:          Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6, SATA Rev 3.0

Standards:

    Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0028)

    Supported: 8 7 6 5

    Likely used: 8

Configuration:

    Logical        max    current

    cylinders    16383    16383

    heads        16    1

    sectors/track    63    63

    --

    CHS current addressable sectors:    1032129

    LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455

    LBA48  user addressable sectors:  976773168

    Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes

    Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes

    Logical Sector-0 offset:                  0 bytes

    device size with M = 1024*1024:      476940 MBytes

    device size with M = 1000*1000:      500107 MBytes (500 GB)

    cache/buffer size  = 8192 KBytes

    Form Factor: 2.5 inch

    Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 5400

Capabilities:

    LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)

    Queue depth: 32

    Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum

    R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16    Current = 16

    Advanced power management level: 128

    Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 128

    DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6

         Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns

    PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4

         Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns

Commands/features:

    Enabled    Supported:

       *    SMART feature set

            Security Mode feature set

       *    Power Management feature set

       *    Write cache

       *    Look-ahead

       *    Host Protected Area feature set

       *    WRITE_BUFFER command

       *    READ_BUFFER command

       *    NOP cmd

       *    DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE

       *    Advanced Power Management feature set

            Power-Up In Standby feature set

       *    SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up

            SET_MAX security extension

       *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set

       *    48-bit Address feature set

       *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set

       *    Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE

       *    FLUSH_CACHE_EXT

       *    SMART error logging

       *    SMART self-test

       *    General Purpose Logging feature set

       *    64-bit World wide name

       *    IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD

       *    WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command

       *    {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands

       *    Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE

       *    Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)

       *    Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)

       *    Native Command Queueing (NCQ)

       *    Host-initiated interface power management

       *    Phy event counters

       *    Idle-Unload when NCQ is active

       *    NCQ priority information

            DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization

            Device-initiated interface power management

       *    Software settings preservation

       *    SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set

       *    SCT Read/Write Long (AC1), obsolete

       *    SCT Write Same (AC2)

       *    SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)

       *    SCT Features Control (AC4)

       *    SCT Data Tables (AC5)

Security:

    Master password revision code = 65534

        supported

    not    enabled

    not    locked

        frozen

    not    expired: security count

        supported: enhanced erase

    104min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 104min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.

Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50004cf2088fd241

    NAA        : 5

    IEEE OUI    : 0004cf

    Unique ID    : 2088fd241

Checksum: correct

smartctl

Install  smartctl command,
 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  lib32z1 libc6-i386

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following extra packages will be installed:

  heirloom-mailx

Suggested packages:

  exim4 mail-transport-agent gsmartcontrol smart-notifier

Recommended packages:

  mailx mailutils

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  heirloom-mailx smartmontools

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 53 not upgraded.

Need to get 693 kB of archives.

After this operation, 2,168 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y

Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe heirloom-mailx amd64 12.5-2 [247 kB]

Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main smartmontools amd64 6.2+svn3841-1.2 [445 kB]

Fetched 693 kB in 6s (103 kB/s)                                                

Selecting previously unselected package heirloom-mailx.

(Reading database ... 184903 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../heirloom-mailx_12.5-2_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking heirloom-mailx (12.5-2) ...

Selecting previously unselected package smartmontools.

Preparing to unpack .../smartmontools_6.2+svn3841-1.2_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking smartmontools (6.2+svn3841-1.2) ...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...

ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot

Setting up heirloom-mailx (12.5-2) ...

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx to provide /usr/bin/mailx (mailx) in auto mode

Setting up smartmontools (6.2+svn3841-1.2) ...

Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...

root@laks:/dev/disk# smartctl -d ata -a -i /dev/sda

smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-37-generic] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org



=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Model Family:     Seagate Momentus SpinPoint M8 (AF)

Device Model:     ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB

Serial Number:    S2RSJ9DCA02798

LU WWN Device Id: 5 0004cf 2088fd241

Firmware Version: 2AR10002

User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]

Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical

Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm

Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6

SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is:    Mon Nov 10 16:53:18 2014 IST

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled



=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED



General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status:  (0x00)    Offline data collection activity

                    was never started.

                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.

Self-test execution status:      (   0)    The previous self-test routine completed

                    without error or no self-test has ever

                    been run.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection:         ( 6480) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities:              (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

                    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

                    Suspend Offline collection upon new

                    command.

                    Offline surface scan supported.

                    Self-test supported.

                    No Conveyance Self-test supported.

                    Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)    Saves SMART data before entering

                    power-saving mode.

                    Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability:        (0x01)    Error logging supported.

                    General Purpose Logging supported.

Short self-test routine

recommended polling time:      (   2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time:      ( 108) minutes.

SCT capabilities:            (0x003f)    SCT Status supported.

                    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.

                    SCT Feature Control supported.

                    SCT Data Table supported.



SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       4

  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0026   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0023   091   091   025    Pre-fail  Always       -       2857

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       3125

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   252   252   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0

  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   252   252   051    Old_age   Always       -       0

  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0024   252   252   015    Old_age   Offline      -       0

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4093

 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   252   252   051    Old_age   Always       -       0

 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       10

 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       885

191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       210

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   051   042   000    Old_age   Always       -       49 (Min/Max 22/58)

195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   252   252   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x002a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2339

223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       10

225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       10777



SMART Error Log Version: 1

No Errors Logged



SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]



SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0

Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run

 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

    1        0        0  Completed [00% left] (0-65535)

    2        0        0  Not_testing

    3        0        0  Not_testing

    4        0        0  Not_testing

    5        0        0  Not_testing

Selective self-test flags (0x0):

  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

palimpsest:

Also, graphically view disk utility by palimpsest command,
 
Run it from a terminal