Realtime Hard Disk Monitor
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
