Retrieving HDD ATA properties

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I need to get hard disk drive ATA properties such as:
- interface type (SATA-II) (importantly)
- rotation speed (RPM)
- form-factor
- etc.

I try to use WMI with

C++

"Win32_DiskDrive class"

, but unfortunately it does not provide required information.

Please explain me, what functions I should use to get this information?

Posted 5-Jan-15 1:52am

Igor-84

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CHill60 · Answer 1 · 2015-01-05T01:55:00

Solution 1

There are several links listed in the solutions to this CP post Getting Hard Disk Speed[^]

Posted 5-Jan-15 1:55am

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Igor-84 5-Jan-15 9:53am

This post and proposed solutions do not provide needed data. They maintainly use "Win32_DiskDrive class", but as I wrote above, it can't help. Any solutions?

CHill60 5-Jan-15 10:21am

As far as I know if the information isn't available via Win32_DiskDrive, Win32_Volume or (at a push) Win32_PhysicalMemory then the information is not known to the OS. Windows doesn't really care if the disk is 3.5 or 2.5 inches.