Hard Drive Activity on Vista

[tigersty1e]

So it's been a while since Vista's been on my machine (6 months or so)... so all the indexing, superfetch is done.

I also have auto defragger turned off and just defragged yesterday.


When it's idle, I don't hear or see any hard drive activity, but when I load up an internet explorer page, my hard drive starts loading in synch with the loading webpage.

I never thought of this, but now I'm getting a little concerned about the longevity of my hard drive.

What could be causing this? With 2 gigs of ram, I'm surely not hitting the page file while just browsing the internet.

 

[schneiderguy]

It gets put in the page file even if you aren't out of ram

 

[tigersty1e]

So is it wise to disable the pagefile?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
So is it wise to disable the pagefile?

Leave your pagefile alone.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
So is it wise to disable the pagefile?

Absolutely not. Windows and a lot of programs depend on the pagefile to properly operate. Your hard drive is designed to handle workloads much greater than what Vista puts on them.

 

[nerp]

Your HD could probably run a constant defrag for 2 years straight without failing. I wouldn't worry about the longevity of your HD. It's not an oil filter or a pair of sneakers.

 

[bsobel]

What could be causing this? With 2 gigs of ram, I'm surely not hitting the page file while just browsing the internet.

Probably writing out cached copies of the page.