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Constant 100% HDD Activity Light
I've searched around various places and I have found different problems with hard disk lights blinking and constant hard disk activity, but I have not found one that matches my exact problem. I have a fairly newish computer, with an Asrock x58 Xtreme 3 motherboard, Intel Core i7 930, and an OCZ Vertex LE SSD. When I first installed Windows, I disabled things like auto disk defragmentation, prefetch or superfetch (whichever the one is that most people disable when they have SSDs, I don't exactly remember), and so on. After this, my hard drive light would blink probably once per second.
I'm not sure what happened, I don't even know WHEN it happened, but my hard drive light started being on constantly. 100% of the time. The light doesn't even blink, it's just on solid. I went into Resource Monitor to try to track down which program was doing it. Sadly, the process that looked like it was the problem was "System". It is constantly reading and writing about 87,000,000 Bytes per second 100% of the time every day. I am worried this is going to ruin my SSD, and I would really like to figure out what is causing this problem. This screenshot shows my Resource Monitor. I ran a full computer scan with AVG and it didn't seem to find any problems. I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot this. It didn't used to be like this. Thanks.