DBRASCO

I also have the random load click from the hard drives. That never happened
in XP unless you were doing a shut down or restart.

Brasco

"chas" wrote:

> Same here!
>
> My HD hardly ever goes quiet under Vista. Task Manager does not show
> what is causing it either.
>
> I disabled the indexer service as I must do at least 2 searches every 6
> months. Hard disk activity is considerably less now but still lots
> greater than XP.
>
> Someone forgot that hard disks are the devices that can have the most
> impact on a computers performance. They are the only devices that have
> not significantly improved over the last few years. Yes they have a much
> larger capacity and are much more reliable now, but the speed has hardly
> changed. So today's CPU's just sit there waiting for a disk to respond
> because its being overloaded by all these silly background processes.
> The PC seems to freeze.
>
> My two main complaints with Indexer are:-
>
> a. It starts as soon as you boot the system and that when you want your
> PC to be as fast as possible. I even had services time-out waiting for
> the disk to be available. (my PC index is 5.3)
>
> b. It starts up as soon as you install some new software. At which
> point most users want to be using that software and not waiting for the
> stupid indexer to be able to search it.
>
> The end impression from a user point of view is Vista is *much* slower
> than XP.
>
> There isn't a HD on the market that can fill the bandwidth of SATA1 so
> don't be fooled into thinking you have a much faster PC if its got SATA2.
>
> Even sadder - no one at Microsoft is going to read this or even care
> because they thought the indexer was a really cool idea.
>
>
>
> Cyphon wrote:
> > Since installing Vista Ultimate i have been experiencing annoying and
> > disturbing noises. I have found that my hard drive is regularily spinning up,
> > down and up at random intervals, i have seen no distinct pattern at all. But
> > i can distincly hear the drive spining, it also causes freezes on my computer.
> >
> > The noises i recognise from XP whenever i shut my computer down (and only
> > when) There's like a click, a pop and some spinning. Other times i hear a
> > high pitched spinning noise getting higher and higher. I have also heard
> > another friend mention a similar noise comming from his computer.
> >
> > The only thing i can possibly think of is Drive Ready (for hybrid drives) or
> > Drive Boost (for flash storage) causing this issue due to some
> > incompatibility?
> >
> > Any help at all is greatly appreciated!
>