HDD constant activity ON (writing to SSD)

For an hour it wrote around 700 MB, and finally after an hour writing is becoming less and less, and more often 0 kb/s which is good.
Now after an hour if I see writtings, it is usually <10 kb/s.
I will install drivers now and see how will laptop behave.

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SIW2 said:

what do you mean ?

I wrote down free space on C drive after laptop booted and then again after an hour to see how many MBs nvme ssd wrote to C partition.

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So I left the laptop ON earlier in the morning and will check it on the afternoon.
Installed all the drivers via snappy driver installer but dunno why it "ate" 30 gb of space on drive.Download was 5.5GB.

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Nope, sadly it continues to fill up my C (system ) drive.
I left home and wrote 210GB free space,after 3 hours I checked now and it is 195 GB, some mtf is filling up my drive with smth I dunno what, guys please help...


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Ben Myers said:

See if this applies to you.

https://mskb.pkisolutions.com/kb/3083595

Ben

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With this version of windows there is exclamation mark under:
intel pci data acquisition and signal processing controller
Driver not installed etc etc....
Snappy could not install this driver showing some error code.
What driver should I install for this?
I did not have this issue with previous older Windows installation.

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This device is left uninstalled.
What is it for, and how to install it?


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I am sorry guys, but no one knows cause of issue?
I will leave 24h laptop ON write free space and after 24 h check free space again, reboot and check free space again.
So my collegue which is IT technician told me so.

I just need link to driver:
PCI Data Acqusition and Signal Processing controller.
Do I need intel chipset driver for it?
Could not find it on intel website.

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I figured out it is doing writings for a like an hour and then kinda stops or writing is too low.
In any case it takes around 1.5 GB of free space.
Probably doing something which has to, and I got OCD with it.
I hope this is normal.
Regarding driver, I searched under hardware ID and got result Intel framework and thermal assistant etc etc but driver is from 2020 and it is on offical website for this model but it says it is for 32bit system which is weird.
I did made restore point and will try to install it tomorrow.

Megahertz said:

The Intel drivers should be detected and installed with win update.
You can also run Intel® Driver & Support Assistant

This driver to install?
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en...driverid=tgf56

So today I put internet radio on and went to take a nap, when I came out from bed I saw HDD led notification blinking, so I checked free space and I lost 3 GB more in just like 2 hours.
So whatever it is, it is doing it online.
What could it be, I disabled updates?
3 GB in 2 h is a lot.
What should my next step be?

hi
may I know the usual / comon ammount of written data on c: after a reboot/cold boot and kept the computer idle?
yours laptops or desktops
thanks

drugo said:

hi
may I know the usual / comon ammount of written data on c: after a reboot/cold boot and kept the computer idle?
yours laptops or desktops
thanks

On this particular laptop?
How many hours you want me to leave it ON?

frozensun said:

On this particular laptop?
How many hours you want me to leave it ON?

hi
in short ,no antivirus , standard drivers , could be the event log to increase writing I/O ?
have you tried to install w11 just in case to see the writing i/o ?
is there a tool for linux? Just in case , to find out the culpit

3 GB in 2 h is a lot

well , yes ,with internet off , and no activity yes it is
in short your windows is use to keep read few gb and is keeping to write gb without any activity

How many hours you want me to leave it ON?

about 1 hour or 30 minutes , so we can compare with the other users

drugo said:

hi
in short ,no antivirus , standard drivers , could be the event log to increase writing I/O ?
have you tried to install w11 just in case to see the writing i/o ?
is there a tool for linux? Just in case , to find out the culpit


well , yes ,with internet off , and no activity yes it is
in short your windows is use to keep read few gb and is keeping to write gb without any activity



about 1 hour or 30 minutes , so we can compare with the other users

Will do.Yesterday I left laptop on, but forgot to conmect it to the internet.Will do today, after work.

TairikuOkami said:

A faulty AHCI/SATA driver can cause what appears like 100% disk activity. Check for new drivers via Driver Easy.

Anyway System Informer neatly shows, what process is causing high I/O activity and the most writes to disk.

hi TairikuOkami
can system informer (new process hacker) log all the writing process into a file?
just to help the user?
thanks