Hard Drive LED
Thursday, January 19, 2012 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Just curious if it's normal for a computer running Windows 7 Home Premium to keep accessing the hard drive every other second. My HDD LED light lights up every other second, the hard drive never seems to rest. No unusual background programs running, I have my auto-defrag programs and A/V scans turned off. Just wondering if I should be worried. Thanks!
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Reply #23 Monday, January 30, 2012 6:10 AM
Are you aware that Windows 7 has a service called Superfetch that tries to memorise user habits and pre-loads applications to memory so that they are available for fast start? If your schedule is consistent (for example you read mails from 6-8 p.m., and start playing Counter Strike after 8 p.m. every day), you should experience very fast system response. The downside is of course a lot of IO activity - your drive does not stop. Also, some background defrag is running when your own activity is not IO heavy.
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Reply #21 Saturday, January 21, 2012 9:28 AM
...........................you hope....