For some reason, whenever I'm listening or running a video in VLC Media Player, the HDD slows down a crawl, like uncompressing files will go at a rate of less than 1MB/s. When I pause VLC, the speed jumps up back to normal speeds, and then goes back down when VLC is resumed.
Sometimes it doesn't do this though, and everything runs at proper speed even with audio streaming on VLC and uncompressing files, ect. I tries putting the audio files on a USB 3 drive instead of running it from the system HDD (which is the drive uncompressing files is being done on), but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Like I said, sometimes this doesn't happen (while running the same files in VLC) and the HDD runs at proper speed even while uncompressing files and ect, usually at least ~50+mb/s as opposed to 5000kbs/s, or even less.
Anyone know why this might be happening? Thanks. It's a SATA 7200 RPM HDD.
CPU usage isn't effected. I've checked the usual things in resource manager but notice nothing unusual, except the HDD slowing to a crawl while playing audio files in VLC. RAM usuage isn't unusual either, like right now I'm only using 3GB out of 8GB but the HDD crawls at less than a 1mb/s until VLC is paused, even though the file being streamed is on a separate drive.
Sometimes it doesn't do this though, and everything runs at proper speed even with audio streaming on VLC and uncompressing files, ect. I tries putting the audio files on a USB 3 drive instead of running it from the system HDD (which is the drive uncompressing files is being done on), but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Like I said, sometimes this doesn't happen (while running the same files in VLC) and the HDD runs at proper speed even while uncompressing files and ect, usually at least ~50+mb/s as opposed to 5000kbs/s, or even less.
Anyone know why this might be happening? Thanks. It's a SATA 7200 RPM HDD.
CPU usage isn't effected. I've checked the usual things in resource manager but notice nothing unusual, except the HDD slowing to a crawl while playing audio files in VLC. RAM usuage isn't unusual either, like right now I'm only using 3GB out of 8GB but the HDD crawls at less than a 1mb/s until VLC is paused, even though the file being streamed is on a separate drive.