Looking for drive ACTIVITY (*not* SPACE) monitor

[WmHBlair]

I found my way here to Rainmeter because of several recommendations that there were great (drive) activity monitors (along with CPU, swap, etc.). But what I actually find are the usual, ho-hum drive SPACE (available, used) monitors; none appear to monitor actual drive (or partition) ACTIVITY. Did I miss something? All the Google search hits that would lead one to believe that drive activity should be exhibited actually turn out to be skins that have nothing more than the usual, boring space monitors (of which I have no need).

Have I missed something (like the obvious somewhere ... but not to me)?

[jsmorley]

You will need to use the PerfMon plugin included with Rainmeter.

http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/perfmon

Here is a simple skin that demonstrates:

DriveLights_1.0.rmskin

DriveLights.jpg

You need to run the PerfMon.exe application in Windows click on "Performance Monitor" then click on the green "+" icon to "Add Counter". Find the entries you will use in:

PerfMonObject=PhysicalDisk
PerfMonCounter="Disk Reads/sec"
PerfMonInstance="0 C:"

Which will look something like this:

perf.jpg

You mileage may vary a bit on the string used in PerMonInstance, as it can be different depending on which version of Windows you are on.

I just have it display drive "lights", but you can use the actual values as well.

[WmHBlair]

Thanks, I have found things like that, but that's not exactly what I am looking for. I should have been more specific or at least more descriptive in my original post, in which I tried to be brief, apparently to the detriment of understandability. I am *not* looking for (generic) hard drive I/O activity, but either separate, individual physical drive activity or, alternatively, separate, individual logical drive partition activity.

Anything like that exist? That's what I cannot find in the forest of search results.

[jsmorley]

I don't know of anything already made like that specifically, but I believe all of that information is available with the PerfMon plugin, as they are values in Windows Performance Monitor. Look under "Logical Disk" for monitors for drive letters assigned to partitions.

[WmHBlair]

Thanks. I will pursue it myself and perhaps post what I create.

[jsmorley]

Sounds good. We are around if you get stuck on something.