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100% HDD Usage lately when gaming
Hello everyone. I've run into a bit of an irritating issue concerning my storage drive (standard western digital hdd). When i'm gaming, particularly The Division ( and also the beta for The Division 2) my disk usage jumps to 100% and causes a ton of lag. I don't experience this with any other game currently(not even the Witcher 3 or HEAVILY modded skyrim and fallout 4). Now this is system is about 4-5 years old now, but it still chugs along aside from that. Also to note.. this is my storage drive. My OS in on an SSD, completely separate.
I've done a defrag, and even a few disk checks for bad sectors and everything is showing that its still a relatively healthy drive. I've seen several people say that its windows 10 doing? but I don't understand how that would be the case since this drive only contains games. Any thoughts and help would be greatly appreciated.