I wonder if it's a legitimate seeking sound. Joan Venge: No sure of what exactly triggers it, but Windows itself has always periodically accessed all of my HD drives. Also if any HD starts making noises for no apparent reason, it can indicate that it's going bad. It stopped now. I don't think it was seeking sound. I tried to turn off my thermaltake HDD dock by pressing the button but it didn't turn off.
As soon as I plugged it back, same sound. But now nothing. Really bizarre. Thanks I always forget about resmon! There's task manager which has gotten a lot better in Windows 10 , resource monitor, and perfmon.. Synetech Synetech The Overflow Blog. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? Podcast Do polyglots have an edge when it comes to mastering programming Featured on Meta.
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If you wish to keep the window open while doing other things, click the pin button. The list auto updates every second by default it can be changed from 0. Download Process Hacker. You can find here github. I was looking for something to tell me what process was accessing my network drives, not the local hard drive.
So my issue was a little different than what is discussed here, but it turned out that Process Monitor worked great for this.
I was able to set up a filter that only showed accesses to the network drives and I very quickly found out exactly what I was looking for. I was able to remove the program that was touching the drives every 20 seconds or so and preventing the drives from going to sleep.
Thanks for this very informative article! Problem is most of those programs actually log their activities causing unnecessary writes to the disk as well. I finally switched OS and rarely see a disk access. But for those who are less adventurous. One way to solve some of the access problems is to disable logging and auditing unless your system has crashed recently.
And set your defrag and updates to something like once a week or once a month and turn off all the process and performance tracing utilities unless you are debugging or developing. I actually thought that the hard drive indicator light was there to tell me that the drive was ready. Partially because it is not quite as user friendly as windows eg.
Nevertheless the tools you mentioned are great for finding out which programs are doing all of the reading and writing. The most annoying one is finding out that system or syshost or spp. Because that means that you have enabled some sort of background task that has lots of dependencies and keeps lots of unnecessary files open. Setting logging to crash dumps and system errors only and either turning indexing off or setting it to only index media and documents will definitely help and the tools you have listed are pretty awesome for getting right to the core issues.
But for me being a developer and having my computer crash and constantly in debug mode Windows just ran non-stop trying to see if I was breeching their EULA and constantly wanting internet access or to log everything to send to Microsoft every time I got online my disk was constantly whirring.
Sweet little tool. I love seeing the file activity.
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