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Disk activity

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    Question How to identify what program is accessing a disk?

    I am trying to transfer large amounts of data across hard drives - like terabytes of data, so it takes most of a day to transfer. I use TeraCopy for the transfer, so I can see exactly the rate at which the date is transferring. I sometimes see that the date rate has throttled down, so I just...
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    [SOLVED] The reason for constant disk activity?

    Hi! This is driving me nuts. I noticed that my C: drive (SSD) is making a lot of noise like it's writing or reading something almost all the time. The pattern of the noise is something like morse code and the disk is never quiet for more than 5 seconds. With Process Explorer I noticed that the...
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    Graphics card very hot with side panel on

    My graphics card gets ~80 degrees C while gaming which I know isn't that high but if I take the side panel off, it goes down to ~70 degrees C. How can I fix this? Idles temps improved from ~50 C to about ~45 without the side panel as well.
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    First Gaming PC build, £750 budget, Thaughts?

    This is my first attempt at a PC build, really want to get into PC gamming with a budget of £750. Already have Monitor and peripherals so they aren't an included. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/jdMfr7 Thoughts would be greatly appreciated, Cheers :)