- Sep 17, 2016
- 5
- 0
- 1,510
Hey everyone,
I am on a new install of Windows 10 and am facing 100% disk use. At this point I'm wondering if I have a defective hard drive.
I've tried everything I could find on this forum. Disabled Superfetch, Search, Windows Tips, etc, changed the page size on the hard drive to be my memory amount, I even went in and set MSI disabled as per this https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/kb/3083595 even though it doesn't look like my situation applies.
In the task manager, I only see a few tasks using disk, and all are < 1 mb/s, most are 0.1mb/s or 0. If I look in the performance tab, it shows read and write speeds of < 1mb/s and a usage of 100%. Average response time goes from 30-50ms.
So yeah, that's wrong. My drive is a Seagate hybrid drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178381
It's too late to return it, unfortunately, but I'm thinking of splurging for an SSD and hope that sorts it. According to Crystal Disk Info, the drive has no problems.
Is there something else I can do? Is there any way to actually see all the tasks using disk? Seems like I'm into black magic territory where I have no way of diagnosing this myself. Are there better tools for figuring this out?
EDIT - In response to Saga Lout:
No worries. I'm using only about 250gb. Also, this is a brand new build, about a month old. My first build too, so I might have messed something up.
I already replaced the cable to the SATA port, but I didn't actually test another port yet.
Now I'm feeling this is a software problem, since the hard drive seems to have quieted down for now but will start going crazy again with no warning. It usually does so after I start it up when it's been asleep or turned off for awhile.
But I'm not sure if it's the hard drive's software problem - like maybe the hybrid layer that copies stuff between the SSD and HDD portion is messed up and goes crazy.
It's so hard to know because I've got no visibility into what's making the thing chug.
I am on a new install of Windows 10 and am facing 100% disk use. At this point I'm wondering if I have a defective hard drive.
I've tried everything I could find on this forum. Disabled Superfetch, Search, Windows Tips, etc, changed the page size on the hard drive to be my memory amount, I even went in and set MSI disabled as per this https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/kb/3083595 even though it doesn't look like my situation applies.
In the task manager, I only see a few tasks using disk, and all are < 1 mb/s, most are 0.1mb/s or 0. If I look in the performance tab, it shows read and write speeds of < 1mb/s and a usage of 100%. Average response time goes from 30-50ms.
So yeah, that's wrong. My drive is a Seagate hybrid drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178381
It's too late to return it, unfortunately, but I'm thinking of splurging for an SSD and hope that sorts it. According to Crystal Disk Info, the drive has no problems.
Is there something else I can do? Is there any way to actually see all the tasks using disk? Seems like I'm into black magic territory where I have no way of diagnosing this myself. Are there better tools for figuring this out?
EDIT - In response to Saga Lout:
No worries. I'm using only about 250gb. Also, this is a brand new build, about a month old. My first build too, so I might have messed something up.
I already replaced the cable to the SATA port, but I didn't actually test another port yet.
Now I'm feeling this is a software problem, since the hard drive seems to have quieted down for now but will start going crazy again with no warning. It usually does so after I start it up when it's been asleep or turned off for awhile.
But I'm not sure if it's the hard drive's software problem - like maybe the hybrid layer that copies stuff between the SSD and HDD portion is messed up and goes crazy.
It's so hard to know because I've got no visibility into what's making the thing chug.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram