500 gig hd using all my comp resources whats wrong?

[shaido7]

Hello,
I just purchased a 7200.9 sseagate barracuda hd 500 gig drive. I am having a problem with it though randomly it sounds like a vacum cleaner and then today my computer started getting laggy,So i did a alt,crtl,delte and looked at what was using my system resources. there was nothing showing yet my cpu useage was up and down from 90 to 50 percent. i rebooted then a short while later again same thing. since i just added my new hd i figured that had to be it
so i removed the drive.

I have no problems right now,im pretty sure theres a problem with the hd. To install the drive i just grabbed one of my sata cables slapped drive in case and went to harddisk mananger clicked quick format and set a couple of test files on the drive and thats all it sees the drive as healthy.

i have an msi k8 platinum mobo and a raptor already installed and im usind sata port on the mobo.

 

[Slobogob]

1. If you have large files (especially movies) on the HD and open the folder with the Explorer it will check each file for resolution unless you disable that. If that happens the CPU usage skyrockets.
2. If using a USB-hub, you´re screwed. Most are cheap and use the CPU for error correction and other services. CPU usages tends to go to insane levels too. I suppose that could happen too if you installed the wrong driver for your SATA.
3. Check for a newer SATA drivers.

 

[shaido7]

I just have 2 cds on the drive for testing purposes. the drive is empty otherwise. ill check for newer drivers.

 

[redwing]

HDs have no drivers. THe IDE/SATA interfaces are a universal standard. The PC knows exactly how to handle your disks, the only tools you can get are proprietary backup utils or maybe some performance/noise regulating tools (to enable/disable AAM, etc).

Is the HD an EIDE drive? If so, make sure it is alone on it's channel (no other devices attached to the same ribbon cable), putting 2 HDs on the same channel, especially fast ones, will greatly reduce performance and cause a lot of useless bus arbitration overhead to be put on the system.

Although to be honest, I don't see it loading an athlon 3500+ to 50-90%, that's just unreal. Make sure you don't have any senseless services/adware/whatever that are acting up.

edit : my bad, I forgot that your MB actually has it's own set of drivers, and that indeed included sata/usb/whatever drivers. Those, like the poster above mentionned, should be checked to be up to date.

 

[Ls3D]

Is it cool to do a quick format? I always do the longer low level format with a new drive. Just a thought.

-S

 

[croc]

It might be possible that the drive contrller has an issue... Not likely, since it seems to work OK. Get a copy of Seatools from seagate and check the drive.

Out of curiosity, why a 7200.9 instead of a 7200.10...?