Get-DiskSpeed
SYNOPSIS
Measures the disk speed of the specified logical drive letter
SYNTAX
Get-DiskSpeed [-DriveLetter] <String> [[-Interations] <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>]
DESCRIPTION
Measures the disk speed of the specified logical drive letter. This is used by AutomatedLab when determining optimal placement of harddisk files of Hyper-V virtual machines.
This requires the tool WinSAT which is part of the module deployment. As such, this cmdlet only works on Windows.
EXAMPLES
Example 1
Get-DiskSpeed -DriveLetter C
Measure disk speed of drive C
Example 2
Get-DiskSpeed -DriveLetter D: -Iterations 5
Measure disk speed of drive D using 5 iterations (repetetive measurements) and return average measurement
PARAMETERS
-DriveLetter
Drive letter to measure
Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:
Required: True
Position: 0
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
-Interations
Number of measurements to perform
Type: Int32
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:
Required: False
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
CommonParameters
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.