Why is my SSD so busy even when i'm not doing anything on the pc?

[Wayfall]

Specs:

CPU:i7 4790K
MOBO: ASROCK ATX Anniversary Z97 Socket 1150
RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHZ RAM
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO
OS: Win 7

Hi

Could any one tell me why my storage is so busy even when no program windows are open? Like Chrome for example, why is the SSD still dealing with it?

Cheers

 

[Tradesman1]

Looks like you have chrome and paint open, chrome could be updating web pages

 

[Wayfall]

But chrome is shutdown and I have that setting 'allow apps to run in the background' disabled which means all of chromes processes should stop the second I close. The SSD is still reading chromes stuff thou.

(paint was up as I was doing the paste screenshot)

 

[mjslakeridge]

Are you sure Chrome is truly shut down and not just minimized? If you go to the "Processes" Tab in Task manager, do you see any instances of Chrome? If so try manually right-clicking and end the process and see if that stops the disk usage.

When I have Chrome open, I see some disk utilization also. It would seem to me that if it were updating web pages, it would use RAM and not disk resources (assuming RAM was not fully used). Do you have a Pagefile set up? Maybe try disabling that and see what happens.

 

[Wayfall]

Are you sure Chrome is truly shut down and not just minimized? If you go to the "Processes" Tab in Task manager, do you see any instances of Chrome? If so try manually right-clicking and end the process and see if that stops the disk usage.

When I have Chrome open, I see some disk utilization also. It would seem to me that if it were updating web pages, it would use RAM and not disk resources (assuming RAM was not fully used). Do you have a Pagefile set up? Maybe try disabling that and see what happens.

Would that give a negative effect?

 

[mjslakeridge]

Do you mean a negative effect from disabling page file? It shouldn't as you have plenty of RAM. Pagefile is just a setting that reserves some space on the SSD/HDD to store frequently used files in the event all of the RAM is used up by other programs/files.

Do you have Google Drive (cloud storage) on the PC? There will be a little triangle just to the left of the 3 horizontal lines at the top of the Chrome page. Perhaps it is looking to sync with your computer, even when Chrome is off (I am really not sure about this, just speculating).

 

[Wayfall]

Well was reading this and wondered if I should disable it or not.
http://www.howtogeek.com/199990/should-i-disable-the-page-file-if-my-computer-has-a-lot-of-ram/
Its like it says what if the pc needs to save a 4GB load of data, that's a lot of RAM gone.

I will test tonight as while gaming on big games my RAM can exceed the standard 8GB, good thing I have 16GB.

Also found this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2222708/pagefile-memory-usage.html

 

[mjslakeridge]

I googled "page file ssd" and there are ton's of links. There seems to be some disagreement as to whether having a page file on an SSD is a good idea or not as far as the life of the SSD. I get the impression that it was more of an issue when SSD's were first introduced. If you also have a HDD in your computer, you can specify that the Page File use the HDD rather than the SSD.

 

[Tradesman1]

With 16GB you could prob bypass using the page file, but keep in mind there are still apps that want and use a page file, so I tend to keep one regardless for stability purposes, can always put the page file on one of the other drives rather than on your SSD 😉

 

[Wayfall]

I googled "page file ssd" and there are ton's of links. There seems to be some disagreement as to whether having a page file on an SSD is a good idea or not as far as the life of the SSD. I get the impression that it was more of an issue when SSD's were first introduced. If you also have a HDD in your computer, you can specify that the Page File use the HDD rather than the SSD.

I do have a 1TB HDD but didn't think I needed to mention it.

It's a WD one and it also has it's own page file but I didn't know you could put a drives page file onto another driver? How would that be down? Just so my SSD can concentrate on the OS and my most used programs.

 

[Faux_Grey]

Uh. Hi.

Yeah.

That's not high usage at all. 134444 Bytes per second is only 0.134444Megabytes per second.
That's very low disk usage and is completely normal.

Lets also not forget that chrome does create its own background tasks that will always run. (updater, apps, etc.)

 

[Wayfall]

Well when I took the screenshot the usage was just about starting to go down thou sometime I can see the disk get very high on the chart.

 

[mjslakeridge]

I googled "page file ssd" and there are ton's of links. There seems to be some disagreement as to whether having a page file on an SSD is a good idea or not as far as the life of the SSD. I get the impression that it was more of an issue when SSD's were first introduced. If you also have a HDD in your computer, you can specify that the Page File use the HDD rather than the SSD.

I do have a 1TB HDD but didn't think I needed to mention it.

It's a WD one and it also has it's own page file but I didn't know you could put a drives page file onto another driver? How would that be down? Just so my SSD can concentrate on the OS and my most used programs.

Here is how to specify which storage device the page file is located on (I am on Windows 8, so it may be slightly different for Windows 7, but pretty easy to Google for instructions):

Right click on the start menu. Click on Advanced System Settings, a System Properties screen will appear. Click on Advanced then under Performance click on Settings. Then click on Advanced. In the Virtual Memory box, click on change. Identify your HDD drive (probably D and it will probably be set to None for paging file size. Then you can select either Custom Size or System Managed Size and click on Set. Then you can go to your SSD (probably c: drive) and select No Paging File and hit Set, then OK. That should do it.