Reveal You Hard Disk Information from Command line

Want to know the Which Make, serial No, Model is your harddisk no need to open your system there are handy command line tools which can help you retrieve Disk Information

# smartctl -i /dev/sda

smartctl version 5.38 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen

Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

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Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family

Device Model: ST3160215AS

Serial Number: 6RA3TSBV

Firmware Version: 3.AAD

User Capacity: 160,040,803,840 bytes

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

ATA Version is: 7

ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated

Local Time is: Wed Aug 19 12:38:14 2009 IST

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

METHOD 2

# ls /dev/disk/by-id

ata-ST3160215AS_6RA3TSBV ata-ST3160215AS_6RA3TSBV-part5 scsi-SATA_ST3160215AS_6RA3TSBV scsi-SATA_ST3160215AS_6RA3TSBV-part5

Where ST3160215AS is Model Number and 6RA3TSBV is the serial No.

# hdparm -i /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

Model=ST3160215AS , FwRev=3.AAD , SerialNo= 6RA3TSBV

Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }

RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4

BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?

CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=312579695

IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}

PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4

DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2

UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6

AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled

Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Note : HDPARM will give you many details please check the man page for details

There are other tools but to use them you need to install them.

1. hwtools

$ hwinfo --disk
...
Model:     "ST3160215AS"
Device:    "ST3160215AS"
Revision:  "3.AAD"
Serial ID: "6RA3TSBV"