My HDD (one partition, BTRFS) reports itself as non-rational:
$ cat /sys/class/block/sda/queue/rotational
0
According to btrfs(5), by default, BTRFS detects this value and turns on
SSD optimizations for the HDD. Naturally, I'm puzzled...
My question is: should I use the nossd mount option for the HDD?
Following is more details about this HDD.
It's a recent Western Digital Blue 2TB HDD, model WD20EZAZ. Given its
cache size is a rather large 256MB, some people say it's likely an SMR
(shingled magnetic record) HDD.
Since Host-Managed and Host-Aware SMR HDDs support the `REPORT_ZONES`
ATA/SCSI command, I ran this test using `sg3_utils`:
# sg_rep_zones -R /dev/sda
Report zones command not supported
sg_rep_zones failed: Illegal request, Invalid opcode
Therefore, _if_ it's SMR, it must be Drive-Managed SMR.
So is there a good reason why the HDD reports itself as non-rotational?
Does it have to do with SMR?
Additioanlly, the HDD is connected through a SATA to USB connector. I
original suspected it was an issue with the connector, but I tested with
other HDDs with the same connector and they all report as rotational.
