computer: hdd activity light
Feb. 26th, 2009 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriWas having some issues with Slax freaking out and not loading MP3s or playing any media file off drive or CD, so I decided to reboot and ended up back in Windows.
It occurred to me that while running Slax, the HDD activity wasn't blinking. Which.. obviously, since it was only running in RAM and not writing to disk. But then I was thinking about how often Windows writes to HDD and that probably isn't normal? Googled it a bit and per research, have turned off fast indexing on both drives and well as SpeedFan logs (because, honestly, I don't care anymore). Write disk caching was already enabled.
HDD activity light is much less frequent now. I'm pretty certain it has nothing to do with the freezing I was getting, but *shrug* Just another thing to tweak I guess?
While searching for that, I also read a few threads saying that I should recheck power cables to the HDD and see if any are loose. Hm. Will give that a try at some point.
Since I'm already booted into Windows, I think I'll just leave it on and see how long it takes to freeze up on me. I'm betting it'll be before I've finished lunch and caught up on my shows.
It occurred to me that while running Slax, the HDD activity wasn't blinking. Which.. obviously, since it was only running in RAM and not writing to disk. But then I was thinking about how often Windows writes to HDD and that probably isn't normal? Googled it a bit and per research, have turned off fast indexing on both drives and well as SpeedFan logs (because, honestly, I don't care anymore). Write disk caching was already enabled.
HDD activity light is much less frequent now. I'm pretty certain it has nothing to do with the freezing I was getting, but *shrug* Just another thing to tweak I guess?
While searching for that, I also read a few threads saying that I should recheck power cables to the HDD and see if any are loose. Hm. Will give that a try at some point.
Since I'm already booted into Windows, I think I'll just leave it on and see how long it takes to freeze up on me. I'm betting it'll be before I've finished lunch and caught up on my shows.
