Lot of HD accessing?

Johnny Girth · 7 Feb 2007 at 09:43

Alright guys

How much accessing should there be of my HDs? I've got an E6600 with 2gb ram, fresh install of windows on a raid array of 2 x 250gb 7200.10 drives. It's split into 100gb and 365gb drives with windows on the 100gb one. I did actually fill up the 100gb one when transferring stuff across and now I've had to free it up by sending some across to the larger one.

After doing that it seems to access the HD all the time, even when just opening browsers etc.

Seems a bit excessive. Any thoughts?

Johnny Girth · 7 Feb 2007 at 10:20

Thanks for the reply. Commit Charge is 297mb total, 4gb limit, 765mb peak.

PF Usage is 290mb.

The accessing isn't that great but like when I've closed everything down and then open a firefox window it definitely accesses the HD and it takes a bit longer to load than I think it should.

How do I check indexing? Should this be off?

Johnny Girth · 7 Feb 2007 at 10:34

It's switched on - is it a lot better to be off?

Also should the HDs be accessed when windows has booted up (and settled down) and say Firefox is opened? Seems like a lot of work for a simple task!

Cheers

Johnny Girth · 7 Feb 2007 at 13:36

Not sure really, maybe I just didn't expect there to be any HD accessing at all. But when I'm browsing and open a new page you can hear it click a little bit just for a fraction of a second but it does it every time. Does it need to?

Doesn't bother me I guess. HD tach looks ok - will post a screeny later.

Starts off around 160mb/s and drops to about half that at 500gb. Average 130mb/s 13.2ms access time.