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.

whats this hdd in, a pc or a 49 chevy??
is the info a secret??
are you a spy??
details man, details!!

My apologies, It is:

120gb Hitachi HTS541612J9SA00 SATA

in a:

Dell Inspiron 6400 running Vista Home Premium with a Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz, with 2gb ram and a 256mb Video Card (128mb dedicated).

My favorite color is orange, and I DO NOT enjoy long walks on the beach.

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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Originally Posted by kemical

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..

how does one go about turning it off?

Originally Posted by kemical

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..

SP1 does help

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Also turning off 'Superfetch' helps. You can do this via services although if your low on RAM I'd advise against it.

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yeah but if you turn SF off it will make your PC a lil' sluggish

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1 Sony/NEC 7191S & 1 Sony/NEC 7190A
Acer AL2216WBD
Logitech G15 Gamer & Mx518
Vista 64bit SP1/ XP Pro SP3 32bit