How to get rid of hudge disk activity?

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Sulev Svilponis

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I use Vista x64 on my core2duo with 4 GB of RAM and more than 300 GB of free space on hard disks. When the computer is idle for a while, tremendeous HDD activity starts. I tried to turn off services that might cause HDD activity (file fetching, security scans etc), but the problem is still there.
I hate it! This kills my drives too soon!
Does anybody know whats going on under Vista, when computer is idle?
The processes that have big IO activity when this happenes are lsass and system. The sound of HDD is like defragmentation is going on, but when checking the defrag, it shows, that previous gefrag was some days ago, and next is sceduled to be run after 4 days.
 

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Hi Sulev,

Welcome to the forum.

It may be the Search Index that is the cause. You can disable it allowing Vista to default to the non-indexed search. This tutorial will show you how to do it.

Shawn
 

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This is probably the indexing and superfetch activity that will settle after about a week. I goes mental after installing Vista initally, but will settle. It's well worth it for indexed search.


Sulev Svilponis said:
I use Vista x64 on my core2duo with 4 GB of RAM and more than 300 GB of free space on hard disks. When the computer is idle for a while, tremendeous HDD activity starts. I tried to turn off services that might cause HDD activity (file fetching, security scans etc), but the problem is still there.
I hate it! This kills my drives too soon!
Does anybody know whats going on under Vista, when computer is idle?
The processes that have big IO activity when this happenes are lsass and system. The sound of HDD is like defragmentation is going on, but when checking the defrag, it shows, that previous gefrag was some days ago, and next is sceduled to be run after 4 days.
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Thanks for hints! I have already disabled almost all filetypes and locations from indexing options, so the indexing options window had message that only total 458 items indexed.
Indexing of 458 items should not generate that huge activity!? I have this computer several months already and because not so much additional files are added by me during the use (maybe 20 or so, I mostly use the other computer), I thought that indexing of some files is unlikely the reason.
Now I disabled indexing service and let's see if that helps!
I already disabled superfetch a week ago, but that did not help.
 

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I have the same problem. Problem is somewhere else. The tremendous HDD activity doesnt come from prefetch or indexing. In my case the "System" process generates 1.2M I/O traffic. The prefetch and Indexer are located in other processes - SearchIndexer.exe and svchost.exe

My x64 Business as about 1year old and there were no hw changes recently. Backup is off.
 

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    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
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    2560x1440
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    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
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    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
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    Thermaltake Core P3
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    Corsair Hydro H115i
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    Logitech wireless K800
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    Logitech MX Master 3
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    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
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    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy Y0F94AV
    CPU
    i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz
    Memory
    16 GB DDR4-2133
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
    Sound Card
    Conexant ISST Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17.3" UHD IPS touch
    Screen Resolution
    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512 GB M.2 SSD

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Sulev Svilponis said:
I use Vista x64 on my core2duo with 4 GB of RAM and more than 300 GB of free space on hard disks. When the computer is idle for a while, tremendeous HDD activity starts. I tried to turn off services that might cause HDD activity (file fetching, security scans etc), but the problem is still there.
I hate it! This kills my drives too soon!
Does anybody know whats going on under Vista, when computer is idle?
The processes that have big IO activity when this happenes are lsass and system. The sound of HDD is like defragmentation is going on, but when checking the defrag, it shows, that previous gefrag was some days ago, and next is sceduled to be run after 4 days.
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it is not hurting your hdd btw.....
 

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