A dying drive?

[Doug_Dangger]

I have a 2tb spinner drive for my Plex server.  Nearly all the time it's usage is at 100%.

I look at the process Plex is running and it's very low.  But when I look at the drive's usage it's at 100%.  I don't have any anti virus running.  Malware tools are not running.

When I navigate the drive there's a delay.  When I click on an mkv file that's about 3GB in size, there's a noticeable delay.  I dragged the same file on the OS ssd drive and it's instantaneous.  I moved it to another spinner drive and although not as fast as the ssd, it's noticeably faster than the mechanical drive in question.

 

I used the Windows drive utilities and found no issues.  No errors and defrag was not needed.  I defraged it anyways and all looks good.  The drive is at 95% capacity so I don't know if that has anything to do with constantly being busy.

Dying or not?

[Haraikomono]

is SysMain enabled ? If so, how about trying to disable it

[Vishera]

7 minutes ago, Doug_Dangger said:

Dying or not?

Not dying,just overworked,

Hard drives lag hard when they are at 100% active time and you try to shove more work unto them.

The solution to the problem is to wait for the drive to finish the work that was given to it and the active time falls,and only then you can give it more work.

[Doug_Dangger]

1 hour ago, Haraikomono said:

is SysMain enabled ? If so, how about trying to disable it

I turned it off and the drive load looks like it did go down.

 

What's the downside of turning it off?

[Haraikomono]

21 minutes ago, Doug_Dangger said:

I turned it off and the drive load looks like it did go down.

 

What's the downside of turning it off?

The idea was to preload programs in windows, so that they could be executed much faster.

But in praxis there wasnt really much off a difference, its been around for quite some time now as far as I remember