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    • KOMK
      KOM
      last edited by

      Can anyone recommend a decent hard disk realtime performance monitor for Windows?  The built-in Resource Monitor doesn't quite cut it.  I'm looking for something that will show me, per drive, my read/write performance.  I need to test some software that has bandwidth throttling for network/disk and I need to verify that it's really writing at the speed it says it is.  Google has been mostly fruitless with a ton of crapware to show you your SMART values.

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      • KOMK
        KOM
        last edited by

        To answer my own question, I never did find a small, simple util to show what I need so I ended up just using Performance Monitor.  Select the PhysicalDisk - Disk Writes/sec counter and set the mode to Report.

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        • D
          dreamslacker
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          Have you considered using Windows Gadgets?

          Take a look at Drive Meter Gadget, I believe it might meet your needs.

          http://geekvulture.com/windows-7-gadgets-for-system-monitoring/

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by

            I have such a gadget at home (or at least I used to), but for work all my testing is on Windows Server 2012R2 where the Sidebar is deprecated.

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              dreamslacker
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              Doesn't the new Task Manager do this task already?

              Close Task Manager.
              Run an Elevated Command Prompt, enter:  diskperf -Y
              Open Task Manager, there should now be a Disk tab for each Drive under the Performance Tab.

              See:  https://tinkertry.com/enable-disk-performance-counters-in-windows-server-2012-r2-essentials-task-manager

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              • KOMK
                KOM
                last edited by

                I had looked at that but it didn't occur to me that you could add extra disk counters via a command-line.  There sure wasn't a way to do it via its own form.

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