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Detailed information about ATA disk drives (HDD/SSD) and NVMe drives, HDD temperature, HDD health status, transfer modes and HDD features.

Disk

Disk Model: HDD vendor and model read from IDE-controller.

Disk Size: Real HDD size read from the IDE-controller. Due to the two different ways of defining 'megabyte' your hard disk capacity can be calculated in two different ways: after calculating the number of bytes in the formula heads*sectors*cylinder*512-bytes-per-sector you may get the result in the unit 'megabyte' by dividing either by 1024*1024 (like in the BIOS of the computer does) or by 1000*1000 (like the producers of hard disks do).

Interface Type: ATA device interface type (Parallel ATA, Serial ATA I, Serial ATA II, Serial ATA III, NVMe).

Form Factor: Device form factor (5.25", 3.5", 2.5", 1.8").

Rotation Rate: Specifies the speed where the medium rotates in RPM (HDD only).

Geometry: Logical number of heads, sectors per track and tracks while CHS addressing. It has nothing to do with physical HDD parameters.

Compatibility: Compatibility of this device with the specific ATA/ATAPI standard.

Serial Number: HDD unique serial number.

Controller Revision: Number of the revision returned by the IDE-controller.

Disk Marketing Size: The marketing size much more than real size. In one 'computer' megabyte of 1048576 bytes, but in one 'marketing' (used by HDD manufacturers) of 1000000 bytes.

Buffer Size: Buffer size of the IDE-controller (you shouldn't mix it up with disk cache). Part of the buffer can be used for system
purposes, and its real size can be smaller. Some hard disks don't provide information on the buffer size.

Buffer Type: Internal buffer type of the IDE-controller. Possible values - 'Not specified', 'Single ported single sector buffer', 'Dual ported multi-sector buffer', 'Dual ported multi-sector buffer with a read caching'.

Disk Temperature: Current temperature of HDD.

Reallocated Sectors: Number of reallocated sectors.

Disk Health Status: Can be one of four values:

Good - HDD is healthy;
Overheating - HDD overheating;
Poor - HDD health is average. It does not mean that the disk is faulty, however run a HDD diagnostic utility provided by your HDD vendor;
Bad - HDD health is bad. The risk of HDD failure is extremely high, do data backup immediately and run a HDD diagnostic utility provided by your HDD vendor.

SSD Remaining Life: SSD remaining life in persent.

Power On Hours Count: Total power on hours count.

Drive Power Cycle Count:

Total Host Writes: Total size of data written to SSD disk by the host system.

Total NAND Writes: Total size of data written to SSD disk NAND memory.

Total Host Reads: Total size of data read from SSD disk by the host system.

Logical Drives: List of logical drives mapped to physical drive.

ECC bytes: Number of correction bytes.

Security Erase Time: Security Erase Time (in minutes).

Enh. Security Erase: Enhanced Security Erase (in minutes).

Current APM Value: Current Advanced Power Management Value.

Acoustic Management: Current value of the automatic acoustic management (recommended - value recommended by vendor) and status (enabled/disabled).

Controller Manufacturer: Manufacturer of the NVMe controller.

IEEE OUI Identifier: IEEE OUI Identifier of the NVMe controller.

Controller ID:

Number of Namespaces:

Power Consumption:

Number of Power States:

Warning Temperature Threshold:

Critical Temperature Threshold:

Max Data Transfer Size: Maximum data transfer size in pages.

Abort Command Limit:

Asynchronous Event Request Limit:

Firmware Slots:

Firmware Update Granularity:

Time for Firmware Activation:

Max Error Log Page Entries:

Host Memory Buffer Preferred Size:

Host Memory Buffer Minimum Size:

Extended Device Self-test Time:

Keep Alive Time:

Persistent Event Log Size:

Submission Queue Entry Size:

Completion Queue Entry Size:

Subsystem Name:

Access Method:

Location: Vendor and name of ATA controller.

Device Location: Device location on the ATA controller.

Transfer Modes

SATA Speed: SATA device speed. Active: Current SATA device speed.

PIO Mode Support: PIO (Programmed Input/Output) is a way of moving data between device in a computer in which all data must pass through the processor. The higher the number is, the higher the data transfer rate is (For PIO mode 4 - 16.6 MBps).

SW DMA Mode Support: Number of the supported single word DMA mode. Active: SW DMA mode currently enabled by BIOS.

MW DMA Mode Support: DMA (Direct Memory Access) is a transfer protocol where a peripheral device transfers information directly to or from memory, without the system processor being required to perform the transaction. Apart from the previous mode, single word DMA modes can be supplanted by multiword DMA modes. Active: MW DMA mode currently enabled by BIOS.

UDMA Mode Support: Number of the UltraDMA mode. Theoretical transmission speed for UltraDMA mode 2 is 33 MB/s, mode 5 - 100 MB/s. Some chipsets don't support UltraDMA mode (for example, chipsets i430VX and lower don't support it while i440BX supports only mode 2). Active: UltraDMA mode currently enabled by BIOS.

Sectors per Interrupt: Number of sectors that can be transferred per interrupt in a block mode. Active: Current numbers of sectors per interrupt.

Bus Type: Bus type of the NVMe controller.

Bus Bandwidth: Bus bandwidth of the NVMe controller.

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