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I have a three year old laptop running Windows 7 64 bit.
The only disk is a 120 GB SSD
The CPU is an Intel Core i5 480M and I have 6 GB of RAM installed.
Whilst using it where I am not accessing the disk (e.g. checking emails, etc.) I know that the Disk Activity light flashes pretty much all the time. I had always assumed that this was due to Windows pointlessly paging and saving my current status or whatever.
Whilst running Task Manager today I happened to notice that something called IAStorDataMgrSvc.exe was running. On looking into this I gather that it is described as "Intel software for managing Raid drives on Intel chipsets." (LINK). I have now set it to manual startup in Service but for the life of me I can't see why it would run on any system with a single drive.
Does anyone know whether IAStorDataMgrSvc.exe is in fact doing anything other that providing imaginary RAID support on a single drive system and if not, why doesn't it simply shut down?
The only disk is a 120 GB SSD
The CPU is an Intel Core i5 480M and I have 6 GB of RAM installed.
Whilst using it where I am not accessing the disk (e.g. checking emails, etc.) I know that the Disk Activity light flashes pretty much all the time. I had always assumed that this was due to Windows pointlessly paging and saving my current status or whatever.
Whilst running Task Manager today I happened to notice that something called IAStorDataMgrSvc.exe was running. On looking into this I gather that it is described as "Intel software for managing Raid drives on Intel chipsets." (LINK). I have now set it to manual startup in Service but for the life of me I can't see why it would run on any system with a single drive.
Does anyone know whether IAStorDataMgrSvc.exe is in fact doing anything other that providing imaginary RAID support on a single drive system and if not, why doesn't it simply shut down?