what is your disk usage when installing a game on steam?

[John_445]

hi, i just wanted to know what everyones disk usage was when installing a game. i thought mine might be a bit high its usually about 22%, is this normal? thanks!

 

[JanHyka]

I am not sure about mine (after all using SSD), but in general you need to relate it to your download speed. What's yours when your disk load is 22%? Steam downloader shows that.

 

[John_445]

its usually between 8-10mp/s thats what steam says my games are downloading at, is that what you mean?

 

[JanHyka]

its usually between 8-10mp/s thats what steam says my games are downloading at, is that what you mean?

Yep... well, in that case it's quite a bit high for mere 10MB. Do you use that disk as a system drive? Are there any other processes working with the disk (significantly) when you DL on the Steam? What antivirus system do you use? How is your cpu load?

There can be many explanations... starting from just not so fast HDD by design ending with HDD getting higher error count/ unrecoverable errors / reaching end of lifetime of the disk. What HDD manufacturer/model is it?

 

[John_445]

it is my system drive its the only drive i have. i had to detach my other hdd because it has a virus and i havent wiped it yet. the drive is brand new only 2 days old i got it because the other one had a virus and i didnt feel like dealing with that at the momen, i realize now it was a waste lol. the drive is a WD Blue 1tb 7200 rpm its not the best by any means

 

[JanHyka]

Hm, as a system drive plus WD blue it could fit in a range of expectation I guess. Though I'd still make sure it's antivirus protected and verified by Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool (http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?lang=en) (Just don't do 'write zeros' test if the tool still supports it). To stay on a safe side.

 

[John_445]

okay i didnt know they even had an antivirus. i have a macafee subscription, should i use it or keep it uninstalled?

 

[JanHyka]

na, you get me wrong, sorry... WD DLG tool is for hardware diagnostic - it checks (in range of what's doable) whether the device is running correctly and within specifications.
McAfee... Accorging to http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/avc_factsheet2016_07.pdf it's rather worse out of the listed ones, but it should be good enough not to start worrying and panicking about 'bad antivirus'... after all this is just one test result and it still cought 97% of viruses it was tested with, and there is no telling whether that comparison is 100% trustworthy. Imho if you are happy with this antivirus keep using it.