Physical Disk Information

Part of some of our tasks is we get automated notifications of disk usage reports, this will then take me off into finding the User(s) who are the data hogs ** Read Me ** and either have them clean it up, or purchase a new hard drive. So lets say the user agrees to a hard drive upgrade, so now what? Well you need get the current drive information, size, make, model, type to then present them with an option of what to buy.

So how to I get a easy report in a matter of seconds as I don’t want to right click, search, properties, hope its in there……

Fire up the powershell and run this command:

Get-PhysicalDisk | Select *

Now look at that super cool and fancy report! Now lets look real quick at the main parts you need. However the two big parts you are looking for it the following.

This tells me that this is a NVMe drive, and the make model. So in my case this is a WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1006 so if we search for this we find the following: https://www.newegg.com/p/3B8-0087-00009 Which as you can see, is indeed the disk in my pc. Now we have another verification of what it is and we can recommend a upgrade path.