This plugin displays instant disk/partition performance (bytes transfered per second) for :

• Linux kernels 2.6 or recent 2.4's (at least 2.4.20 compiled with CONFIG_BLK_STATS turned on)
• OpenBSD/NetBSD systems
• Solaris systems

• Better compliance with panel plugin HIG
• Use double values for progress bars (bug #8882)
• Facilitate bringing up the configuration dialog (bug #8899)
• Fix transparency (bug #8892)

• Use newer tooltip API (bug #8730)
• Make tooltip strings translatable and MB→MiB string updates (bug #8828)
• Always update progress bars even if stats are unavailable (bug #8845)

• Gracefully allow to monitor non-present devices (bug #6749)

• Translation updates (uk,eu,pt_BR,it,da,nl,pt,gl,ko,zh_CN,sk)

* Build the plugin as a module

• Port to libxfce4ui (bug #8099)
• Port to panel 4.9 (bug #8401)
• Fix translations (bug #6343)
• Explicitely link with libm (bugs #7982,#8514)
• Add Solaris support (bug #7167)

• Support for Xfce 4.8 panel
• Translated into 30 languages
• Allow editing the label, even when it is not displayed in the panel, fixing bug #6176
• Compile fixes

• l10n: Updated Dutch (Flemish) (nl) translation to 100% (2013/04/26 22:31)
• l10n: Updated Hungarian (hu) translation to 100% (2013/03/12 22:10)
• l10n: Serbian translations (2013/01/25 20:48)
• l10n: Updated French (fr) translation to 100% (2012/12/15 16:57)
• l10n: Updated Arabic (ar) translation to 100% (2012/11/18 17:37)

Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system.

• [Bug 8957] [PATCH] Use better border sizes
• [Bug 8950] [PATCH] Make label spacing consistent with that of other plugins

The normal (and best) way to get this plugin is to use the package manager or port system of your operating system.

If it isn't available there, or if you want a different version, you can download it in source form from http://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-diskperf-plugin/.

http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-diskperf-plugin/