{"id":1212,"date":"2020-08-26T12:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1212"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:41:15","slug":"how-to-check-the-drive-performance-in-windows-10-command-line-built-in","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-check-the-drive-performance-in-windows-10-command-line-built-in\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check the drive performance in Windows 10 Command Line (Built in)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no need to download an external tool to check the drive performance in windows quickly from the <strong>command prompt<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sure there are tools that will provide more detailed information but quite often if you&#8217;re just looking to find out whether the hard drive is bogging down your PC here is how you can do it.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1<\/h3>\n<p>Open up the command prompt (<strong>as an Administrator &#8211; Important!<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2<\/h3>\n<p>Enter the following:<\/p>\n<p>winsat disk &#8211; drive <strong>c\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>(where c is the drive letter that you want to check)<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1213 size-full\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Pasted-into-How-to-check-drive-performance-in-Windows-10-Built-in.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no need to download an external tool to check the drive performance in windows quickly from the command prompt.\u00a0 Sure there are tools that will provide more detailed information but quite often if you&#8217;re just looking to find out whether the hard drive is bogging down your PC here is how you can do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[9,452],"article-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1212","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-commands","article-category-windows-10"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":17,"sum_votes":68},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}