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. I have no off-line stuff, using free Spotify. Ann said on September 27, at am. Mikhoul said on September 28, at pm.
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George said on September 27, at pm. Excellent article, thanks. Martin Brinkmann said on September 27, at pm. George, you are right of course. Corrected the shortcut in the article. What about Process Hacker? Process Hacker is open source alternative of Process Explorer. EamI said on January 26, at pm. The same issue applies when I copy from 1 thumb drive to another thumb drive. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Comment Check the box to consent to your data being stored in line with the guidelines set out in our privacy policy We love comments and welcome thoughtful and civilized discussion.
Rudeness and personal attacks will not be tolerated. PassMark Diskcheckup is a very robust hard drive monitoring software and shows work best in the hands of an expert. This information works fine for a novice user, but it gives a detailed overview of S. On top of all these features, it also lets you quickly check the health of multiple hard drives installed with a simple click. As the name suggests, HDDScan is for running multiple types of scan on your hard drive to determine its health.
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Overall, HDD Health is perfect if you want a tool to give simple hard drive health situation and keep you updated. The popular data recovery and hard drive solutions company Western Digital also offers a handy hard drive health monitoring tool. It is a scanner that scans your hard drive for errors and problems and reports back. The 'Add Counters' window will load in a popup window. Go back to the 'Available Counters' list and expand the 'PhysicalDisk' node.
Specify a name in the 'Name:' field for the Data Collector. Select the option for 'Create manually Advanced ' and then click Next. For the type of data to include select the option for 'Create data logs' and tick the box for 'Performance Counter' and then click Next.
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