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Constant hard disk activity
My pc runs an SSD for windows but I have a secondary internal mechanical 3 TB hard drive. Tonight it sounds like the mechanical hard drive is in constant activity. I checked task manager and it's not showing any usage, 0% as expected so I am wondering why it is busily whirring away? Could it be doing background tasks that do not show up in task manager when checking disk usage?
Over the last week I have installed a few steam games on it so downloaded a probably a couple hundred gigabytes so maybe it's something to do with that? Unfortunately my machine doesn't have hard disk lights on the front but I can hear the tell tale whirring which has been going on for a good couple hours now. But resource monitor and task manager show zero activity on the disk. Maybe it's optimising /defragmenting but surely that would show activity in task manager or resource monitor right? Besides which if open disk defragmenter app it says it was last run on the mechanical drive about an hour ago and status ok 0% fragmented
it seems to shut up if I play a movie stored on it. I stop the movie and can hear it's quiet. But after a while, some idle time it kicks into life again.
Last edited by Scottyboy99; 23 Aug 2017 at 16:46.