Disk statistics

Whether you are capacity-planning or planning for server replacements, there are many reasons why you may want to evaluate disk information. PowerShell offers several methods to retrieve disk information. If you want to learn more about the physical disks on your system, you can leverage the get-disk cmdlet. The get-disk cmdlet provides information such as Number, Friendly Name, Serial Number, HealthStatus, OperationalStatus,Total size, and Partition Style.

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To determine all of the properties available to the get-disk cmdlet, you can execute get-disk | get-member. This will display all of the available methods and properties for the physical disks.

Retrieving physical and logical disk information

To retrieve disk information about the physical disks on your system, you can perform the following command:

get-disk

The output of this is shown in the following screenshot:

This example displays how to get information about the physical disks on a system. When you execute the get...