Windows event log disk errors

In PowerShell I can use "Get-PhysicalDisk" to see a list of all the disks and their serial numbers, but this does not list the disk ID as used in the event log or disk management, and in Storage Spaces there is no way to identify the disk either. So I have a couple of questions: Q1. I need to identify it, find it's serial number, and remove it from the pool so it can be physically replaced. Why does Storage Spaces direct not monitor for bad blocks appearing on a drive?

From experience I know that increasing numbers of bad blocks is a sure sign of a failing disk, and I also know that this can lead to severe performance problems. In this particular case I've been seeing performance issues for a couple of days which had been making me suspicious, and during my last reboot windows had to repair the storage spaces volume which is what prompted me to check the event log, and which shows new errors occuring on this drive several times a minute.

If Storage Spaces is not monitoring physical error counts on drives, nor drive latency and the performance impact, then it's doing a very poor job as a RAID replacement. Informing users of errors and preventing performance degrading when a drive starts to fail are key features of a modern RAID controller.

Monday, September 25, PM. Friday, September 29, PM. Best Regards, Mary Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. Tuesday, September 26, AM. What else do you look for? It always a false positifs or you have clone the disk and you have 2 disk with the same ID on the PC.

I don't know if it is related to your issue or not, but in my case it was the Xbox App on Windows I started by searching the Internet for solutions, but didn't really find much that was helpful. However, those events were really bugging me and I had to know what they were, so I kept digging. Then I decided to check Device Manager. I didn't see anything right off the bat, so I selected View from the top menu and then selected Show hidden devices.

Upon clicking on Disk Drives I found that I had like 50 instances of 'Xvd' under Disk Drives in Device Manager, but they were only visible after selecting to 'show hidden devices'. I deleted all of them, but on reboot many came back so I did some more searching. It turned out to be the Xbox App making some ghost drives for the installed games I had. Previous Next. Samhrutha G. How satisfied are you with this reply?

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