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re: Why would a hard drive start running aggressively?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 11:15 am to chinhoyang
Posted on 3/30/17 at 11:15 am to chinhoyang
Usually it's because something is hogging your memory and Windows responds by using a portion of your drive as a substitute so it can keep running. A look at your Task Manager should tell you if your physical memory use is really high and which process is the culprit.
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Posted on 3/30/17 at 11:38 am to foshizzle
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Usually it's because something is hogging your memory and Windows responds by using a portion of your drive as a substitute so it can keep running. A look at your Task Manager should tell you if your physical memory use is really high and which process is the culprit.
That's what I was referring to by "excessive paging." When it happens, you'll know it, because the whole computer will slow to a crawl. It's very unusual, IME, but YMMV depending on what you use your computer for.
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