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HDD Constant reading/writing on 435T
Took delivery of new 435T..all is well except disk drive is constantly making noise like you would hear when reading and wrtiign large files...HDD light flashes and it chugs away..performance seems ok, but what the heck is it doing...it will do this even after sitting idle for hours...disk defrag is turned off..ideas?
My guess: Do you have it set to RAID 1 by any chance? If so, it takes 8-12 hours for the hard drive to build the mirror. That may be what is happening. Look at your task bar and see if there is a little icon "Intel Matrix manager"or something like that. Click on it and it will tell you it's building the drive. If not that, then it could be antivirus or other monitoring programs that are building.
DELL-Donald K
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Posted March 30th, 2009 19:00
Another item that can cause HDD activity is GOOGLE DESKTOP. It will index the entire HDD, and that can take several hours.
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Posted March 26th, 2009 23:00
Did you go under Control Panel\Administrator Tools\Task Scheduler\Microsoft\Windows\Defrag and disable that task?
You can run Smart Defrag or Auslogic instead. I know you said it was turned off but wanted to make sure that task was disabled.
It could also be readyboost, if you right-click on your toolbar and pull up Task manager, go to the Performance tab and click Resource Monitor and you may be able to see what is causing the disk activity under the disk view.
I have a 435T and have not noticed this behavior, but did notice it with a laptop I have with Vista, and it is a common complaint about how Vista operates. Most causes are Defrag, Indexing, or Readyboost.