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Is it normal for SATA HDD to cause lag in games?
So this has been happening to me recently: with a Western Digital Caviar Black 2 TB HDD installed as a secondary HDD on my desktop, with some games installed to it. Sometimes when a game is loading, the whole screen will pause about 3-4 seconds and then continue as usual. It also happens at times while in-game.
There aren't any other indications of abnormal behaviour: no skipping or fragmentation of pixels on the screen or anything unusual, just lag/delayed-response on the screen. I have not been super-concerned because the average frequency for it is maybe at most once every 1-2 hours.
When the pause happens, I can tell the HDD is whirring, and there aren't any sounds of note coming from it besides that. (I found a website online where they had sample HDD sounds from drives gone bad, nothing like that at all; also, I ran a full extended test of Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnotic in addition to the regular SMART test: all reported normal/Pass).
So, my question becomes: anyone else have this experience? Is it normal for hard drives to do this? Are there any tune-up suggestions to remedy it?
Ty for input in advance :)