Hard Drives Grinding

Sitting at the PC I notice my hard drive is reading for a second ever
second for as long a 30minutes at times. grunt/grunt/grunt.

It's a WD 750GB green unit. I have lookied into task manager to se
what it is with no avail.

Just curious

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- 8GB CORSAIR MEM
- 1XWD 750GB HDD
- 2X WD 750GB RE2 RAID-1
- VISTA X64 SP1

This could be due to Vista's indexing. However, does the drive sound normal?
If not it maybe the drive that is at fault. I would certainly visit Western
Digital's website and download their disk diagnostics tool and check your
hard drive.

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"therock" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Sitting at the PC I notice my hard drive is reading for a second every
> second for as long a 30minutes at times. grunt/grunt/grunt.
>
> It's a WD 750GB green unit. I have lookied into task manager to see
> what it is with no avail.
>
> Just curious.
>
>
> --
> therock
>
> *=================
> 'Rookie Photographer' (http://alcphoto.net)
> =================*
> PHOTOSHOP CS3 RIG
>
> - Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
> - Intel Q6600 G0
> - 610W CORSAIR PSU
> - POWERCOLOR AX3650 512M DDR2
> - 8GB CORSAIR MEM
> - 1XWD 750GB HDD
> - 2X WD 750GB RE2 RAID-1
> - VISTA X64 SP1

Hi,

Indexing or defragging are the most likely suspects. Both of these services
occur when the system is on but is either not in use, or in low-level use.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"therock" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Sitting at the PC I notice my hard drive is reading for a second every
> second for as long a 30minutes at times. grunt/grunt/grunt.
>
> It's a WD 750GB green unit. I have lookied into task manager to see
> what it is with no avail.
>
> Just curious.
>
>
> --
> therock
>
> *=================
> 'Rookie Photographer' (http://alcphoto.net)
> =================*
> PHOTOSHOP CS3 RIG
>
> - Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
> - Intel Q6600 G0
> - 610W CORSAIR PSU
> - POWERCOLOR AX3650 512M DDR2
> - 8GB CORSAIR MEM
> - 1XWD 750GB HDD
> - 2X WD 750GB RE2 RAID-1
> - VISTA X64 SP1