Re: OK, new Vista machine is finsihed indexing, but hard drive still being access continuouksly
- From: "illjilli" <illjilli@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:38:50 +0200
Actually, there is no evidence at all that accessing a drive like that shortens its life. If you don't believe me, find those Google White Papers
There is no evidence of the nature of gravity though either. But we feel its effects.
Yes no one really understands what the heck gravity is, if it is a wave or particle of some sort and how it is generated.
Einstein said that it is a curvature of space time.. but that does not describe how it works.
But for those who do know how hard drives work would never say what you said.
Drives that ae thrashing all the time fail more often in home computers as opposed to the drives that google has, because google has
their drives in air-conditioned rooms, with back up power, and no movement.
While in most computers they have difference in temp, humidity, electricity may fail or the hard drive could be shocked my movement if it's a laptop or someone kicking the box my mistake if it's a desktop.
You don't need to be Einstein to realize this simple thing.. YES DRIVES DIE FAR MORE OFTEN when they keep crunching data!!!!
The more data the are reading writing the more the disk head is moving across the disk platter, the more the movement the more possuibility for it to scratch the disk if some of the above reasons happen.
"Steve Thackery" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uS$R2ZvSJHA.1164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is going to kill my drive.
Actually, there is no evidence at all that accessing a drive like that shortens its life. If you don't believe me, find those Google White Papers which discuss at length hard disk failure modes. Nobody gets through more hard disks than Google.
Lots of things cause ongoing disk accesses in Vista, and they all operate at the lowest I/O and CPU priorities in order not to affect performance. Apart from indexing, Vista spends a lot of time defragging the disk, preloading stuff into memory in anticipation of you wanting it, and I believe it also shuffles files around on the disk to improve boot performance.
Please don't worry. Vista accesses the disk more than XP. Eventually it'll calm down, but you may need to wait several days.
SteveT
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