PhysicalDisk Object

Object: PhysicalDisk Index: 234 Novice

A Physical Disk object type is a hard or fixed disk drive. It will contain 1 or more logical partitions. Disks are used to store file, program, and paging data. The disk is read to retrieve these items, and written to record changes to them.

% Disk Read Time Novice

Disk Read Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive is busy servicing read requests.

Index: 202 Default Scale: 1

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_TIMER Counter Size: 8 bytes

% Disk Time Novice

Disk Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive is busy servicing read or write requests.

Index: 200 Default Scale: 1

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_TIMER Counter Size: 8 bytes

% Disk Write Time Novice

Disk Write Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive is busy servicing write requests.

Index: 204 Default Scale: 1

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_TIMER Counter Size: 8 bytes

Avg. Disk Bytes/Read Expert

Avg. Disk Bytes/Read is the average number of bytes transferred from the disk during read operations.

Index: 226 Default Scale: 0.01

Counter Type: PERF_AVERAGE_BULK Counter Size: 8 bytes

Avg. Disk Bytes/Transfer Expert

Avg. Disk Bytes/Transfer is the average number of bytes transferred to or from the disk during write or read operations.

Index: 224 Default Scale: 0.01

Counter Type: PERF_AVERAGE_BULK Counter Size: 4 bytes

Avg. Disk Bytes/Write Expert

Avg. Disk Bytes/Write is the average number of bytes transferred to the disk during write operations.

Index: 228 Default Scale: 0.01

Counter Type: PERF_AVERAGE_BULK Counter Size: 4 bytes

Avg. Disk sec/Read Advanced

Avg. Disk sec/Read is the average time in seconds of a read of data from the disk.

Index: 208 Default Scale: 1000

Counter Type: PERF_AVERAGE_TIMER Counter Size: 4 bytes

Avg. Disk sec/Transfer Advanced

Avg. Disk sec/Transfer is the time in seconds of the average disk transfer.

Index: 206 Default Scale: 1000

Counter Type: PERF_AVERAGE_TIMER Counter Size: 4 bytes

Avg. Disk sec/Write Advanced

Avg. Disk sec/Write is the average time in seconds of a write of data to the disk.

Index: 210 Default Scale: 1000

Counter Type: PERF_AVERAGE_TIMER Counter Size: 4 bytes

Disk Bytes/sec Advanced

Disk Bytes/sec is the rate bytes are transferred to or from the disk during write or read operations.

Index: 218 Default Scale: 0.0001

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_BULK_COUNT Counter Size: 8 bytes

Disk Queue Length Novice

Disk Queue Length is the number of requests outstanding on the disk at the time the performance data is collected. It includes requests in service at the time of the snapshot. This is an instantaneous length, not an average over the time interval. Multi-spindle disk devices can have multiple requests active at one time, but other concurrent requests are awaiting service. This counter may reflect a transitory high or low queue length, but if there is a sustained load on the disk drive, it is likely that this will be consistently high. Requests are experiencing delays proportional to the length of this queue minus the number of spindles on the disks. This difference should average less than 2 for good performance.

Index: 198 Default Scale: 10

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_RAWCOUNT Counter Size: 4 bytes

Disk Read Bytes/sec Advanced

Disk Read Bytes/sec is the rate bytes are transferred from the disk during read operations.

Index: 220 Default Scale: 0.0001

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_BULK_COUNT Counter Size: 8 bytes

Disk Reads/sec Novice

Disk Reads/sec is the rate of read operations on the disk.

Index: 214 Default Scale: 1

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_COUNTER Counter Size: 4 bytes

Disk Transfers/sec Novice

Disk Transfers/sec is the rate of read and write operations on the disk.

Index: 212 Default Scale: 1

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_COUNTER Counter Size: 4 bytes

Disk Writes/sec Novice

Disk Writes/sec is the rate of write operations on the disk.

Index: 216 Default Scale: 1

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_COUNTER Counter Size: 4 bytes

Disk Write Bytes/sec Advanced

Disk Write Bytes is rate bytes are transferred to the disk during write operations.

Index: 222 Default Scale: 0.0001

Counter Type: PERF_COUNTER_BULK_COUNT Counter Size: 8 bytes