Any tips on monitoring disk activity in Windows 10 over a period of time: files, IOPS, accumulated MB?

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Some context: I have a virtual desktop (Windows 10) that I use for work: it basically has Windows 10, Office, OneDrive, and that’s it. When I’m done for the day I take an incremental backup. But it seems this gets rather huge (>12-13 GB). I would like to understand why.

What I need: an (if possible: simple) solution to monitor disk activity for a certain time period (say anything between 10 minutes and a full working day) that gives me a top-down view of the files accessed, the number of IOPS on it, and the accumulated read/write MB to the file.

I don’t care if it’s a GUI or shell-based.

Let’s see if my beloved L1T community (no pun!) can provide some hints :slight_smile:

Anybody here having done this sort of stuff recently?

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I think you’ll want to look into Performance Monitor for this. Native Windows application. You can monitor basically anything about Windows. It’s probably your best bet. Unfortunately I haven’t used it for anything other than IOPS, so I don’t have much of a tutorial for you.

But you can setup various monitors, have them collect data in the background, and then look at the data after the fact.

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Thx, checking it out!