This is a quick post to show how you can monitor Windows RAID and physical disks using PowerShell
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Get Physical Disk Serial Numbers Using PowerShell
Problem:
How do I retrieve the serial numbers of physical disks connected to my server using PowerShell?
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PowerShell script to give me a full disk report and name the report based on user input
Problem:
I have been using a gui based tool for years to report on my backup disk media, outputting several key items of information. I wanted to do all of this in PowerShell and automate it all.
PowerShell script to backup a volume to multiple external USB disk drives
Problem:
I have several large volumes residing on NAS units that I want to backup. The issue is that the volume needs to be backed up by several external disks connected via USB.
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Troubleshooting Fileservers at capacity or with limited space and clearing large, old files
Problem:
Recently I had to find a fast way of clearing space on a fileserver that was literally at bursting point, the 2TB disk had just 100MB free space remaining. I needed a way to identify the large, old files quickly so that I could then check with the file owners that they could be deleted.