System HDD heats up in idle state

karasahin

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Hello. I use GT70 barebone laptop. It has two HGST HTS 1 TB 7200 RPM HDD. One for the system and other for the storage.

Primary disk (system) heats up when it enters to idle state. For example, if I leave my laptop for half hour to idle then I came in system HDD's temps rise up as 5 to 7 celcius. Nothing wrong with exactly the same second disk, it lowers its temps just fine.

My both disk's health table is OK according to HDTune. I also did full bad sector scan and both of them were clean. Intel Rapid Storage app is also installed, though I don't know it is mandatory.

Primary disk's activity LED blinks a lot. It only stops for just maybe two seconds and keep blinking and go on.

I think there are some programs or some scheduled tasks prevent disk to enter idle state. I use real time temps showing programs all the time, RealTemp and HWMonitor. Do they cause to the problem?

I googled my situation but there was nothing useful. I'm stuck. Why my primary disk does heats up while idle instead it should lower its temps? Thanks in advance.
 

karasahin

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I don't have anti-virus software. Indexing could be it. I look to system monitor but I couldn't figure it out how to use it. I can post disk usage screenshots from System Monitor if you like.
 

popatim

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My Bad.
Use Resource Monitor button on the Performance tab of Task Manager.
Click the Disk Tab and then on the "Total (B/sec)" heading so that the processes with the most reads and writes are listed first.

I'm currently working on a laptop with a similar issue as yours, they have about 400 "Trusted Installer's" running all at once. I suspect they aren't so 'trusted' after all. LoL
 

karasahin

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400? That's big. :) Do you think a virus/malware cause that? I was not concerning about that because I thought my laptop is clean but who knows? Maybe some of them got into regardless of Deep Freeze. Better scan with Kaspersky.

Okay, got it. I begin to analysis that disk page to find out which processes keep the laptop busy in idle state. I hope this is some virus that using resources because if it is system itself then I don't know how to solve it.