Originally Posted by booeyOH

Hello, My little hard drive is always cranking away, and often gets up to 55 degrees celsius (which is at the top end of the Hard Drive Manufacturer's allowable operating temperature). So when I go into the Resource Monitor for Vista, it shows the Disk as running at 90%+ Highest Active time a lot of the time, and there are often A LOT of either svchost.exe or SearchIndexer.exe running that takes it up. Is this normal? Thanks.

Yup I'm afraid it is.. The drive is always being indexed to help your desktop search. If you don't use this feature much you can disable it but personally I leave mine enabled as after a while it does calm down and doesn't thrash as much. Rumours suggest that SP1 will improve on the thrashing..

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