Disk Activity

[N00berG00ber]

i have a fresh install of W7 Pro 64 and finally got everything up and running on my new SSD. however, i get a lot of random disk activity. my Disk light on the front of my PC flashes quite a bit however it dos it sporadically. i have only 3 programs start with windows (steam, avast, realtek) and only 40 processes running. since im on an SSD, this kinda worries me. i do have prefetch enabled but only for boot files, and indexing is turned off. page file i have set to 1GB and system restore is set to 5.5GB. disk ativity jumps around a lot from 0kb/s to 200kb/s

also other than that, what else should i do to make sure SSD is running 100% and also to reduce writes and increase performance?

 

[whs]

That's nothing. There will be always system disk activity for writing log files etc. And on a new system it may still be busy indexing.

Below is the current activity on my system - and I do nothing than sevenforums activity. And don't worry about your SSD. It will be fine.

 

[N00berG00ber]

That's nothing. There will be always system disk activity for writing log files etc. And on a new system it may still be busy indexing.

Below is the current activity on my system - and I do nothing than sevenforums activity. And don't worry about your SSD. It will be fine.

index is turned off.

 

[Ztruker]

In Performance Monitor, sort by Read then Write. Look in the File column and see what is doing the most reads and writes to disk. That may give you a clue to what is going on.

 

[N00berG00ber]

ok heres the SS. first one is reads second is writes and 3rd is total. this is with just avast, steam, and realtek running. everything else is closed. these values jump anywhere from 1k to 100k bytes.

if im just idle on my desktop, shouldent disk activity be close to 0? like i shouldent be seeing my HDD light lighting up especially when my D drive is tuned off (does so after 5 mins of inactivity)

 

[Ztruker]

Did you look in the file column for the ones with the highest numbers to see what program/service it is?

 

[N00berG00ber]

yea... i think im just being to anal about it..... lol

 

[N00berG00ber]

if you guys can check this out tho, that would be helpful

http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/314114-system-interrupts-spiking-cpu-2.html

 

[carwiz]

If you have a SSD. you can turn off Prefetch too. It won't buy you anything if your system disk is a SSD.

 

[N00berG00ber]

If you have a SSD. you can turn off Prefetch too. It won't buy you anything if your system disk is a SSD.

i set prefetch to only boot items in the reg. thats all.

 

[carwiz]

What Prefetch is having to store and retrieve on boot takes longer than reading it directly off the SSD. But you can do as you wish.

 

[N00berG00ber]

What Prefetch is having to store and retrieve on boot takes longer than reading it directly off the SSD. But you can do as you wish.

i use to turn it off and my PC was constantly searching for BOOT.....something. for go what the name was, and it would do that every 15 mins or so causing lag spikes in my games. so thats y i have it on boot files only.

 

[carwiz]

Then something else is wrong. See your other thread on motherboard drivers. Boot is just that. It's used for Windows boot files. After that, it shouldn't be searching for boot files again.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Then something else is wrong. See your other thread on motherboard drivers. Boot is just that. It's used for Windows boot files. After that, it shouldn't be searching for boot files again.

that was on my HDD however.... it was "readyboot" that was giving me the issue. once i enabled it again, all was good and stutter was gone! i dont mind keeping it enabled to boot only. theres only 9 items in the prefetch folder anyway....