Kenji Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 As of recently, one of my HDDS has been constantly active. It does not effect the performance of my PC but the noise drives me up the wall. Both my HDDs are fully defragged and I cant seem to find what is making it do this. HDD tune reports that my hdds are healthy (one has a warning due to a broken cable a while back but its fine now). Ran a full system scan and nothing shows up. I dont know what to do and I dont really want to format my system, that would be a last resort as I dont have the time to do that. Anyone got any ideas? I have a ST3320820AS and ST380011A. I am not sure what one is making noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDavy Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Have you checked to see if there's any processes running with a high CPU usage (CTRL-ALT-DEL, then 'Start Task Manager' and click on 'Processes' tab) that may be the cause of the thrashing HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnelsoninjax Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Indexing service? That would seem to use the HDD allot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Windows Search / Indexing service ? I usually turn it off for this reason EDIT - Ninja'd :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Is a back-up running ? A virus scan ? I lowered activity by adding more RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temple_treefrog Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Monitor the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard drives. In the past several years I owned two hard drives which failed. The same set of circumstances occurred with each drive, both had a high amount of 'activity noise' even though the system was idle. After two-three weeks of hard drive issues, the S.M.A.R.T./PFA detected a potential failure and recommended to replace the drives. You might wish to consider isolating each drive you own, to find out where the noise is coming from. If I were you, I'd then backup any essential data. Good luck! :) ndoggfromhell 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenji Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 CPU usage is around 0-2% when it happens. Currently the thrashing has stopped so I cant do anything else. Indexing is off and as i said, my drives are healthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temple_treefrog Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 CPU usage is around 0-2% when it happens. Currently the thrashing has stopped so I cant do anything else. Indexing is off and as i said, my drives are healthy. The previous hard drives I mentioned were healthy too. Always zero to little fragmentation, well maintained OS etc. Ironically they were both Seagate as well (ST31000528AS). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 ^ Bum-dee-dum-dummmmm :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 CPU usage is around 0-2% when it happens. Currently the thrashing has stopped so I cant do anything else. Indexing is off and as i said, my drives are healthy. Check here when it happens again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted July 18, 2012 Global Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2012 1. how much RAM is there? 2. are there any programs installed that might be causing it? 3. how do you have the page file set in windows? is it set to "system managed" or something custom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenji Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 After much investigation, Google Play Music manager is the cause. peterreaper 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterreaper Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 After much investigation, Google Play Music manager is the cause. I have the same issue. Have you found the "cure" for this "cause"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndoggfromhell Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I have the same issue. Have you found the "cure" for this "cause"? removing the google play music "spyware"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrobwx71 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 If you "sign out" by right clicking the Google Play tray icon does it still hit the HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kami- Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I have the same issue. Have you found the "cure" for this "cause"? Uninstall the naff software... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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