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2011-12-27 Updated

2010-07-14 Initial Post

Also see my other post, http://sysadmin-e.com/bcd1.

I finally got around to messing with BitLocker again and learned a few more things about it. I have a Gateway S-7410M laptop which I thought did not have a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip. I have the latest BIOS update, but in the BIOS setup, the option to turn on TPM was grayed out and there was nothing in the documentation that mentioned how to enable it, and there was no TPM management software for download. (more...)

2011-09-27 Updated

2010-12-22 Initial Post

I've never had a chance to work with any version of VMware at work. My last company was so far behind in its IT strategy that even in late 2009 it had absolutely no virtualization strategy at all. I did manage to set up one Hyper-V server for them so that one department could use it for software testing. Where I work now, they do use VMware, but they don't use them on any of the messaging servers that I support. So once again, I have no chance to work with VMware. (more...)

2011-05-21 Initial Post

Tested with PS v2 on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

I've found a few commands for getting disk size and free space but I wanted percentage of free space also. I modified one of the commands that I found by adding additional commands to show the percentage of free space. Note that DriveType=3 means local disk.

Get-WMIObject Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DriveType=3" -Computer . | Select SystemName, DeviceID, VolumeName, @{Name="Total Size (GB)"; Expression={"{0:N1}" -F ($_.Size/1GB)}}, @{Name="Free Space (GB)"; Expression={"{0:N1}" -F ($_.Freespace/1GB)}}, @{Name="Free Space %"; Expression={"{0:N1}" -F (($_.Freespace/$_.Size)*100)}} | FT -AutoSize

The output is below, but it doesn't line up properly in Outlook when I use the output string in an e-mail. I haven't had a chance to play around with the formatting.

SystemName     DeviceID VolumeName  Total Size (GB) Free Space (GB) Free Space %
----------     -------- ---------- --------------- --------------- ------------
Server001          C:        C-System    116.5             79.8              68.5
Server001          X:        X-Util      116.4             102.8             88.3

2010-04-29 Initial Post

I've never had the need for something like this, so didn't even know that a product like this existed for consumers. The specs and reviews look decent. The only big issue I see from the specs is that the interface is USB 2.0, which is SLOW. It'd take several hours (probably most of a day) to back up 1 TB over USB 2.0. I haven't checked to see if there are similar products that have a faster interface.

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2009-12-09 Initial Post

I haven’t been able to find any one standard for measuring IOPS (like something from ANSI or ISO), so it seems that vendors can use different variables to test IOPS, thereby attempting to make their numbers look better than that of their competitors’. (more...)