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Rockers066
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Using a mechanical harddrive as a boot device is simply not that great.

Windows 10 tends to write a lot of data in the background and since harddrives are known to write data rather slowly, especially random writes, you'll have a bad experience.

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So I just finish my build and installed windows but out of no where my disk usage is shooting to 100 for no reason need help pc running super slow?

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Literally I have windows installed on it which I know it’s pretty bad till I get a ssd Ryzen 5 3600x 16gb ram an a 570 motherboard 

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1 minute ago, Rockers066 said:

Literally I have windows installed on it which I know it’s pretty bad till I get a ssd Ryzen 5 3600x 16gb ram an a 570 motherboard 

so you don't have a ssd?

 

Then that is norml, windows 10 is very slow on a hard drive, and there isn't much you can do.

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No getting one soon but is that reason my disk at 100?

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Using a mechanical harddrive as a boot device is simply not that great.

Windows 10 tends to write a lot of data in the background and since harddrives are known to write data rather slowly, especially random writes, you'll have a bad experience.

 

 

 

 

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