Media Browser Is Causing 100% Activty % on my SSD

It does settle itself after 20-30 seconds (it might be less than this, but it feels like an eternity) and then fly through all actions I've performed. But then it'll freeze completely and the pattern repeats with various delays. It seems like it trying to find something it really needs and halts everything while it looks, then when its found it it does its stuff... but then it needs to find something else and performance again dies. Thats what it feels like anyway. It has to be disk related because the disk activity LED lights up and just stays on solidly. Meanwhile the CPU is doing almost nothing.

I dont understand how the SSD could be the weak link though. It is small, and does thrash like crazy when it slows down, but on the other hand its lightning fast compared to a HDD and so should be able to read and write still really rapily. And it still has almost a third of its space free.

Would it help do you suppose if I uninstalled it and reinstalled it to one of the big HDD's where it'll have hundreds of gigs to play with... albeit at the expense of living on a slower drive?

100thIdiot said:

Here we go, SP1 is installed and MB has been installed for some time so I would assume its already done whatever it needs to do to at startup. It definately seems to be disk related, the processor doesn't seem to be unduly stressed.

Also, my last drive was a very old 20GB HDD and that seemed to work fine. I thought the SSD would be a nice cheap upgrade (£34).

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Hi there
30GB is FAR too small -- also the "Cheap" price you paid was not so cheap if you think now for approx. double the price (I believe I saw one recently) SAMSUNG 830 series 128 GB SSD for 79 GBP - as this is (excellent) but its been superceeded by the Samsung 840 series 250 GB SSD.

Then install the OS and applications on the SSD and it should all be fine.

With your 30 GB disk there's probably a lot of paging / temporary file storage accesses happening and the disk is too small so it needs a lot of I/O accesses.

A decent sized W7 installation with a lot of applications will probably need around 40 - 50 GB anyway.
Disks (HDD's) are cheap now as well -- and if you use HDD's you need at least 7200 RPM with the largest size cache you can get.

The reason the SSD was active all the time is that it's a MUCH FASTER device than the old HDD -- and you probably might not have noticed the delay with the old HDD. By using an SSD that bottleneck is removed -- now you get the REAL cause of the problem --- insufficient Disk storage --- even if your machine could be fitted with 64 or 128 GB of internal RAM Windows would still require disks for normal OS operation.

Improving computer performance involves doing each step carefully -- when you remove one bottleneck the next one appears. In general though modern PC's don't have problems with lack of processor power. If they have more than 4GB RAM then 99% of problems will ALWAYS be due to SLOW DISKS or insufficient DISK size

Cheers
jimbo

OK thanks all, looks like I'm in the market for a new SSD. Is there a recommended minimum size I should be looking for to suit MB? And Jimbo, could you point me at those Samsungs you found. Many thanks!

Me!

Hey Layback, I did read your post and considered it. But because the older slower drive I used to use was only 20GB, I didn't see any reason to suspect that my faster, bugger SSD was at fault. However, now that the consensus is that its the SSD's size, I'll bow to the majority and upgrade it again.

That said, I discovered last night that my new 3TB Seagate Barracuda on which the content is currently sitting had disappeared from the PC, and Event Viewer was full of NTFS errors. It did this once before when I was copying my media onto it. So perhaps the problem is really a dodgy HHD from Seagate. I've installed Drive Sentinel to monitor it.