Disk Usage constantly on 100%

[Kumar114]

Hello,

I own the MSI GF63 thin laptop whose specs are: Intel Core i5 9300H, GTX 1650 Max Q, 8GB DDR4 RAM and 1TB HDD

I have been facing a problem in my laptop recently.

The Disk usage % is always at 100.

The Disk usage is always around 80-100% whenever I start my laptop or even when I use it normally

Here is a screenshot of the Task Manager.

Why is this problem occuring?

And is there any way to fix this problem?

 

[Levent]

14 minutes ago, Kumar114 said:

Why is this problem occuring?

You most likely have issues with file system or the disk itself. 

[kirashi]

54 minutes ago, Kumar114 said:

Hello,

I own the MSI GF63 thin laptop whose specs are: Intel Core i5 9300H, GTX 1650 Max Q, 8GB DDR4 RAM and 1TB HDD

I have been facing a problem in my laptop recently.

The Disk usage % is always at 100.

The Disk usage is always around 80-100% whenever I start my laptop or even when I use it normally

Here is a screenshot of the Task Manager.

Why is this problem occuring?

And is there any way to fix this problem?

 

If the only drive in the machine is a spinning rust disk (HDD) I'd recommend replacing it with an SSD as soon as possible. No machine should be using an HDD in 2021, especially with all the disk read/write calls that modern OS's make these days, so swapping out the HDD for an SSD will resolve your disk usage problems.

[Tegneren]

Other than replacing with a SSD, you can disable all background processes, all cloud storage synchronizing, only do one thing at the time etc.

an HDD has a mechanical reading head that can only be in one place at a time, so its severly limited when it has to read and write a lot of different things.

 

An SSD is the most significant upgrade you can do in a system that doesn't already have one

[Stahlmann]

Windows is simply not optimized to run on a HDD anymore. Get at least a 128GB SSD for windows. It'll make a huge difference in system responsiveness. Nowadays you can get these smaller SSDs for just a few $.

[ErykYT3]

Feel like I'm absolutely qualified to answer this as I had a gaming laptop for 5 years. 

 

The SSHD was pretty slow and the disk usage probably crept up to 100% over the years but I can't be sure because I wasn't looking into it. 

The only real solution that will leave you satisfied here is to just get an ssd. Doesn't even have to be a good one. 

 

I put a 250gb BX500 into my laptop and all I'll say is that I would have saved myself a lot of time had I done that sooner. 

Sure, you can play around with deleting/disabling some things but that didn't really scratch the itch it was giving me to be honest.