[SOLVED] Why is my PC going mental? High SSD activity

[tadaska]

Any idea what is happening? Surely this is not normal? The PC has been feeling very laggy recently. I thought it was because of the game I have running in the background but then I saw this. It goes for a while then it starts settling and for a few moments it looks like it has settled but then it just starts all over again. Any ideas?

 

[rgd1101]

game running in the background?
how full is the ssd?

 

[tadaska]

the main SSD is pretty full, only 9GB free of 118GB. Can that be the reason?

 

[rgd1101]

possible. move something to the other disk

 

[kenzimarcel]

look at the scale man, 0 to 10kbps, no wonder its spiking from hardly doing anything. it is possible the game is messing with scheduling so other things are taking a lower priority. have you tried closing the game? rebooting? free space on your ssd will not cause your pc to slow down. your ssd already has hidden free space to keep it running fast until the end.

 

[tadaska]

I found two programs running in the background - PingPlotter and Plarium Play. PingPlotter has not been used in months so no idea why it is running. Plarium is the launch app for my game (Raid Shadow Legends). I had exited Plarium so no idea why it was running. I ended both and things normalised. Not sure which one was causing it if at all. Will uninstall Ping Plotter though. And I need a new SSD. What is the popular good but fairly priced larger size SSD these days?

 

[kenzimarcel]

just go on pc part picker, storage, select ssd and sort by price per gb. take the first one of the size you want, and optionally take a well known brand like sandisk or samsung.