Do external storage devices (e.g., USB harddrives/flash thumbdrives) have a unique ID accessible from the Command line in Windows? (including WMIC and Powershell)? By "unique" I mean something that is not assigned by the Format operation or by the particular OS it's on (e.g., System Device ID).
We have a stack of external storage devices where we're seeing wide differences in performance during backup operations. All backups are centrally-logged via a batch file so we're keeping statistics to study this. All backups start with a fresh Format and they can be initiated from any of several different machines on the network which is why I need an ID unique to the device and not something that will change everytime I plug it into a new computer or reformat it. I'm hoping for something supplied by the manufacturer or in the hardware that we can read from the command-line.
Thanks in advance.
We have a stack of external storage devices where we're seeing wide differences in performance during backup operations. All backups are centrally-logged via a batch file so we're keeping statistics to study this. All backups start with a fresh Format and they can be initiated from any of several different machines on the network which is why I need an ID unique to the device and not something that will change everytime I plug it into a new computer or reformat it. I'm hoping for something supplied by the manufacturer or in the hardware that we can read from the command-line.
Thanks in advance.
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