Determine if disk partitions are SSD or HDD

[CodyCBakerPhD]

From qualitative experience, this can make a big different in various performances when interacting with disk (including streaming with a cache)

No native ability in psutil surprisingly

Some digging revealed these platform-specific methods

Unix

cat /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational

or

cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/rotational

Windows

get-physicaldisk | format-table -autosize

which dumps out text like so

Number FriendlyName           SerialNumber    MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage            Size
------ ------------           ------------    --------- ------- ----------------- ------------ -----            ----
4      WD Elements 25A3       5QJLPH7B        HDD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  10.91 TB
0      WDC WDS240G2G0A-00JH30 190825478511    SSD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 223.58 GB
1      WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0   WD-WCC6Y1EPL8DP HDD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 931.51 GB
3      WD Elements 25A3       3ZH460AZ        HDD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  20.01 TB
2      WD Elements 2620       WX32E70356C4    HDD       False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select   4.55 TB