obtaining usage of hard drive on desktop and laptops

[eddieh1]

What is the accuracy of Discovery providing usage of data on a hard drive for desktop and laptops?  

[kevinlenienweav]

Hi Eddie.

If you are discovering the windows storage components it will show you the amount of total disk space as well as free disk space at the file system level.

You can see the amount of space per partition(file system) below for a test machine I discovered against.

The data is accurate as of the time of the discovery scan and is retrieved from WMI:

In addition, in the file system record there is the value also recorded in bytes, for example the free space on C:\ is contained in the free_space_bytes field.

-Kevin Leinenweaver

[eddieh1]

thank you, do you agree though that SCCM would do a better job? or is Discovery suppose to do this so long as it can get into the computer?

[kevinlenienweav]

You will need to make the determination to see which works better for you, but if you are already getting the data needed in SCCM then there would be no need for discovery to repeat the process.

[eddieh1]

what is the report i would create to see all of this?

thank you so much, this helps.