Whenever something gets written to my hard drive it goes crazy!

[Nocturnal]

Ripping DVDs, burning DVDs, downloads that write as soon as they're done downloading, etc all just make my HDD go crazy. Does anyone think it's a defective hard drive? I've had it for a few years now. It's an IBM 60GXP 60 GIG HDD. LMK!

 

[d3n]

Any time my HD goes crazy I assume that it must be doing something important.


However, you stated that it was a 60GXP... I had one that would take forever to access data. Never found any indication of corruption but it would just tick away for no reason. Given all the bad press and the all around sluggishness I did not trust the drive. A hard drive I cannot trust is a Hard drive I don't want.

 

[mobobuff]

If your system is low on RAM, and you start doing memory-intensive things, the virtual memory (memory stored temporarily on the hard drive) will be needed constantly, so your hard drive will be screaming away like a metal grinder. Adding more RAM usually helps with busy hard drives.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
If your system is low on RAM, and you start doing memory-intensive things, the virtual memory (memory stored temporarily on the hard drive) will be needed constantly, so your hard drive will be screaming away like a metal grinder. Adding more RAM usually helps with busy hard drives.

I actually just lost 512mb of ram recently and I guess I could atribute this hdd problem to that. I had 1 gig and my system was fine. Now it's broke with 512.

 

[Nocturnal]

What's amazing is that I was using 512mb of ram and sometimes in ctrl alt del it would be using up 500mb of that 512! It's insane! I just put my other stick of 512 it and it works. I guess it was just my previous setup that didn't like it. YAY!