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Why is Vista64 constantly accessing my WB 1TB Black? There's nothing going on

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GundamF91

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I tried shutting down my Avira and Outpost, but Vista64 still seems to access my HDD just about every 2 sec.

What app will tell me what the computer is doing accessing the HDD?
 
it's probably indexing and/or superfetch. very low priority processes so it should let go of the HDD if your computer needs it.

try the performance monitor

 
Priority isn't necessarily the issue IMO. A drive can never sleep if it's constantly being accessed. The concept of an idle computer seems lost these days. I get antiviral software, but I've actively tried to disable EVERYTHING on my computer that would access the HDD just to see if I could get it to idle, and I was never successful. And I mean going down to using SysInternals (now Microsoft) filemon to see exactly what file I/O is performed. At a certain point, it just came down to the OS "doing stuff" and I gave up.

On my laptop using Vista, constantly accessing the HDD like that can't help battery life at all -- low priority task or not.
 
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