Is there a similar approach to Get-PhysicalDisk under windows, and if not, there are no plans to move forward in the near future

[oyeyyh]

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[GuillaumeGomez]

It was originally what I wanted to achieve but unfortunately, I couldn't find how to do it in other platforms than Windows.

[CarterLi]

This is what I use in my project. All of them don't require root privileges.

• Windows:
  • the raw device file is called \\.\PhysicalDriveX, while X is 0, 1, 2, 3... without empty slots.
  • Get the number of drives in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\disk\Enum\Count, or just keep open the raw device file until getting INVALID_HANDLE.
  • Get vendor, model name and serial number with IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY / StorageDeviceProperty
  • Get disk size with IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX
• Linux:
  • All physical disks are in /sys/block/
  • Get disk name with /sys/block/X/device/vendor and /sys/block/X/device/model
  • Get serial number with /sys/block/X/device/serial
  • Get disk size with /sys/block/X/size
• macOS:
  • All physical disk can be get with IOServiceMatching(kIOMediaClass)
  • Get name with the entry name of IOMedia service
  • Get serial number with kIOPropertyProductSerialNumberKey
  • Get disk size with kIOMediaSizeKey
• FreeBSD:
  • Use libgeom, or parse sysctl kern.geom.confxml manually. All physical disks have rank = 1
  • Get name with config.descr
  • Get serial number with config.ident
  • Get disk size with lg_mediasize

[CarterLi]

It's also possible to get disk kind with libgeom. There are keys called rotationrate in sysctl kern.geom.confxml. If its value is 0, the disk is non-rotating.

BTW, disk kinds should belong to physical disks instead of partitions.