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re: Why would a hard drive start running aggressively?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 11:38 am to foshizzle
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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Posted on 3/30/17 at 12:08 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
Thought of still another cause: I have two Hitachi 2 TB drives that occasionally perform lengthy thermal recalibration cycles. The activity stops immediately when the computer accesses the drive, so it doesn't slow anything down, and it resumes as soon as the drive goes idle again. The activity LED doesn't flicker while the drive is pleasuring itself. 
Posted on 3/30/17 at 6:27 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
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That's what I was referring to by "excessive paging."
I thought so, but didn't know if the OP realized it.
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