Description:

ssd 1.0.0

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Description
Installation
Usage



Description
A tiny, but effective, Solid-State Drive checker for Python.
Working on Windows, macOS and linux.


Installation
Type in your command shell with *administrator/root* privileges:
pip install ssd
In Unix-based systems, this is generally achieved by superseding the
command sudo.
sudo pip install ssd
If the above commands fail, consider installing it with the option
–user:
pip install --user ssd
If in your system missing the command pip, but you’re sure you have
installed the Python Interpreter and the package setuptools
(>=20.8.1), you can try to install pySSD from the sources, in this
way:

Get the latest tarball of the source code in format ZIP or TAR.
Extract the downloaded archive.
From the extracted path, launch the command
python setup.py install.



Usage
Import in your script the module sdd and call its function
is_ssd.
from ssd import is_ssd

is_ssd('/path/to/file-or-dir-or-dev')
Return value will be True if the drive, where the given path is
located, was recognized as SSD, otherwise False.

Note: Ramdisks are always recognized as SSD under Windows.

That’s All Folks!

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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