IDLE Time Logical Disk

Question

Hi,

does anyone know, how to read the idle time of logical disks in C#?

Answer 1

You can use Performance Counters

Something like this :

               System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US");
                EventWaitHandle evt = new ManualResetEvent(false);
                new Thread(() => MonitorCounter("LogicalDisk", "% Idle Time", "C:", evt)).Start();

        void MonitorCounter(string sCategory, string sCounter, string sInstance, EventWaitHandle evt)
        {
            using (PerformanceCounter pc = new PerformanceCounter(sCategory, sCounter, sInstance))
            {
                while (!evt.WaitOne(500, false))
                {
                    float nValue = pc.NextValue();
                    Console.WriteLine(sCounter + " : {0}", Convert.ToString(Math.Round(nValue, 3)));                    
                }
            }
        }