URGENT: HDD pinging at 100% constantly. Help please!

[Flintstone61]

WD Blues bogged down my i7 machine. Random play problems, extremely long waits for retrieval of yesterdays clip(s)
And corrupted recordings. And the occasional Monday morning. Walk into work and find 100% cpu screen frozen b.s.

 

[Corvus85]

WD Blues bogged down my i7 machine. Random play problems, extremely long waits for retrieval of yesterdays clip(s)
And corrupted recordings. And the occasional Monday morning. Walk into work and find 100% cpu screen frozen b.s.

I'm definitely going to buy a 4TB WD Purple soon. It's just that it will involve heavy modification (cutting/welding) of my chassis to accommodate it. I just want to be double-extra-mega sure that it will solve my problems. I'm just hoping that it's not actually my SSD somehow. A user above was saying that it should have higher transfer speeds.

 

[wittaj]

No reason to cut the chassis. Duct tape and velcro do wonders. Slap it to the outside and call it done.

 

[Corvus85]

No reason to cut the chassis. Duct tape and velcro do wonders. Slap it to the outside and call it done.

If you have a look at the In Win Chopin chassis, I don't see that as an option. The entire top panel is used for ventilation. Ideally, I'd like to modify the bottom panel to accommodate the extra depth needed for the drive, but that will also mean putting it on some legs so that the drive gets enough airflow.

 

[delphinus]

I was hopping that you didn't had an 5.4k HDD, did you try not to use the HDd and use your network?
Did you confirm that you dont have a swapfile in your HDD?
Don't cut your nice Win Chopin you have 3 options, buy a very expensive 4tb SSD or use the purple HDD in a good external USB case or bend the shield IO plate of the motherboard and run a SATA-E cable thru there.

 

[Corvus85]

I was hopping that you didn't had an 5.4k HDD

Are you referring to a 5400rpm drive? If so, these are quite common and even WD Purple are 5400rpm.

did you try not to use the HDd and use your network?

I haven't used it in months. It literally has no bearing on the problem. It's as if it doesn't exist.

Did you confirm that you dont have a swapfile in your HDD?

I posted a screenshot above of my swap file. Did you see it?

buy a very expensive 4tb SSD

Lmao, I'm not using an SSD as my main footage drive.

 

[delphinus]

Are you referring to a 5400rpm drive? If so, these are quite common and even WD Purple are 5400rpm.
I haven't used it in months. It literally has no bearing on the problem. It's as if it doesn't exist.
I posted a screenshot above of my swap file. Did you see it?
Lmao, I'm not using an SSD as my main footage drive.

I never use 5.4K hdd only 7.2k, but they work, for the purple buy the one with more cache.

I ask about your network because it didn't had problems and with it you won't need one external driver or an internal HDD producing more heat.

Your screenshot only show the size, in Virtual Memory your need to click Change and there you see the swap in each disk, probably is none for the HDD but confirm it.

 

[Flintstone61]

When your CPu hits 100% are there artifacts frozen on the screen?

 

[wittaj]

Post a screenshot of your computer properties page that shows the true processor in your unit.

Control Panel\System and Security\System

I wonder if there is a letter at the end of the processor indicating it is designed for cooling temps as a priority and is slowing everything down in the process.

 

[Flintstone61]

If it's an 11500 i5 then its got 6 cores and 12 threads at 2.7 GHZ. which would be fine.
If it's the 11500T variant then it's clock speed base line is 1.5GHZ but also 6/12 cores/threads.
1.5 Ghz with Speedstep might be a possible impedance to throughput.
The glaring performance bottleneck issue to me is the laptop HDD with the SMR platters.
The other thing could be graphics drivers and W-11.

 

[Corvus85]

Your screenshot only show the size, in Virtual Memory your need to click Change and there you see the swap in each disk, probably is none for the HDD but confirm it.

When your CPu hits 100% are there artifacts frozen on the screen?

No.
But to reiterate, it's my disk that's pinging 100%, not the CPU.

Post a screenshot of your computer properties page that shows the true processor in your unit.

 

[wittaj]

Well that isn't it.

Really leaning even more towards it being a drive issue. Could be the mobo with a bad connection. I guess Win11 could be doing this, but all signs continue to point towards hardware related.

 

[Flintstone61]

I'd put money on the drive being the problem. until you test it with a higher performing drive, we'll never find out. any chance you can run 2 2.5" drives in the micro chassis? Split the labor?

 

[Corvus85]

I'm probably just going to buy the WD Purple drive and run it loose outside of the chassis until I get the chance to modify it.

 

[delphinus]

Change your swap file for the recommend value, input it manually 2922 for min and max, you have plenty memory for the job 49Gb only slow your pc and wear your ssd, after reboot your pc and will notice that it will boot and shutdown faster.

 

[Corvus85]

Change your swap file for the recommend value, input it manually 2922 for min and max, you have plenty memory for the job 49Gb only slow your pc and wear your ssd, after reboot your pc and will notice that it will boot and shutdown faster.

Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't solve the problem.

 

[IAmATeaf]

You don’t really need to mess with swap file settings these days, just let Windows manage it.

The only time the size of the swap file becomes a real issue is when Windows starts swapping as it’s running out of physical RAM which from what I’ve seen your system isn’t encountering.

 

[Corvus85]

Yeah I thought as much.
I don't remember having to tinker with the swap file since Windows 98.

 

[delphinus]

So for you guys is normal a printscreen where windows recomends a swapfile of 2Gb and create one of 49Gb.

 

[wittaj]

Yeah most of us do not touch that, especially if we have enough RAM. Might have to mess with that with 4GB, but after 8 and preferably 16GB no reason to touch it.

I have over 30cams and it uses less than 2GB of RAM of my 16GB. System works fine so I haven't touched virtual memory settings.