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Chrome lags waiting for HDD to spin up

ka_re_t
By ka_re_t
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Hi all.

 

My current setup involves an NVMe SSD boot disk and 2 hard drives.  Chrome is installed on the boot disk, and only games go on the hard drives.


I've noticed an odd thing recently where if I navigate to a tab I haven't used in hours, Chrome completely stalls out and I can hear the sound of one HDD or another starting to spin.  As the whine of a disk spinning at ever increasing speeds stops (because it reached 7200RPM), suddenly Chrome is fine again.

 

Is Chrome storing my cache on a slow drive?  Or what's happening, and most importantly, how can I fix it?

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