Hello everyone! I hope you had nice holidays!
I have been annoyed by this 100% disk usage for a year now and I am completely sick of it! I have read every article, reddit post and even LTT's posts on it with no solution.
The computer Will lag upon using anything on one source and result in a random and weird 100% disk usage e.g: SSD (O.S + Most applications) HDD (Games) using chrome on the SSD won't cause the lag but playing a game WILL spike the disk usage. I have 2 HDDs, 1 M2 and two SSDs. At first I thought it was the HDD that was the problem but I was wrong. The reason is I switched SATA ports for both, resulted in a very long booting time (Up to 5 minutes) and using any application on the SSD or the HDD will return with a 100% disk usage. I kept doing that until the it booted fast and I tried the HDD and it was the same as the first case. I bought a 960EVO 1TB SSD this Christmas and low and behold...the same problem on the brand new SSD. It is not the HDD then.
What is the problem then? I googled everything with no real solution. I disabled SuperFetch, modified Microsoft AHCPI controllers. Tried many things in the BIOS. The only time it works is when I unplug everything except the O.S SSD.
Throughout all of that time researching I have noticed a few common things with this issue, I will list them for you guys.
1- The spikes happen randomly, and they freeze the entire PC.
2- 100% disk usage with 0 reads and writes, I tried Resource Monitor...same poop different toilet.
3- Sometimes, switching SATA ports constantly might solve it temporarily, however; it will come back!
4- This problem is mostly common with X370 chipsets so far, at least from what I have seen from all the posts I had.
My specs:
* Ryzen 1700 @3.0GHz
* 32GBs of Ram @ 2800MHz
* Kingston UV400 SSD 256GBs (O.S), two WD Blacks HDDs 2TB and 500GBs, Samsung 850 M.2 500GBs
* GTX 1080 FE 8GBs
* MSI X370 GAMING PRO
* Windows 10 64 bit 1909 (Latest Update)
if anyone can help this I would be grateful.
