https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/ssd/Recent content in Ssd on LocodigitalHugoen-USWed, 21 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/check-ssd-hdd-health-powershell-get-physicaldisk/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/check-ssd-hdd-health-powershell-get-physicaldisk/<p>A drive almost never warns you before it dies. One day Windows takes longer to boot, the next you get a read error, and the following week the SSD vanishes from the BIOS. The good news: Windows already stores health data for every disk, and you can read it in seconds with two native PowerShell cmdlets, no extra software needed.</p> <h2>What Get-PhysicalDisk and Get-StorageReliabilityCounter are</h2> <p>Both belong to the <code>Storage</code> module, which ships with Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server. <code>Get-PhysicalDisk</code> lists the physical disks and the overall state of each one. <code>Get-StorageReliabilityCounter</code> goes deeper and, according to the <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/get-storagereliabilitycounter">Microsoft documentation</a>, returns reliability counters such as temperature, errors, wear and the device's usage time.</p>