Why does win10 use HDD 100% these days?

Bobbin said:
@rambo919

I've been barking about Win 10 mysteriously and hellishly underperforming on mechanical HDD's for over two years now. And it's not just me, other IT people in the field who frequently work on a myriad of devices have picked up on it too. Let us know if you ever find the culprit, best of luck :)
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Ok dad.
 
Ssd fixes this but I found buy a reputable brand, also many things that cause this, my latest on a random pc was windows update.
 
AstroTurf said:
Ssd fixes this but I found buy a reputable brand, also many things that cause this, my latest on a random pc was windows update.
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I experienced this with a SSD as well - it only seems to happen on my one work laptop that has 8GB RAM. My desktop has 32GB and other laptop has 16GB - all have SSD and the only one I've seen it on is the one with 8GB RAM.
 
me_ said:
I experienced this with a SSD as well - it only seems to happen on my one work laptop that has 8GB RAM. My desktop has 32GB and other laptop has 16GB - all have SSD and the only one I've seen it on is the one with 8GB RAM.
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If it happens with an SSD I don't suspect it's the same occasional bug. Just similar symptoms. I think that's the problem with this particular bug, similar issues and resolutions muddy the truth around it.

With SSD's I suspect you need to ensure the partition is aligned and do some other troubleshooting. Of course I could be wrong but that's just my gut feel.

I've been through plenty of PC's with 8GB RAM and SSD on Win 10 and they were all good. That's the stock standard build for office PC's these days so if that combo was an issue it'd be quite an infamous one :)

A long time ago our company outright refused to support PC's with mechanical drives due to that bug. It just took too much technician time and costed too much to troubleshoot. SSD swap-outs ended up saving significant time and money for everyone involved labor-wise.
 
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Using an SSD to "fix" this bug is like taking painkilers's to fix a broken toe......
 
I also had this issue on my work PC that was 4GB RAM and HDD.
I tried different solutions, Defrag, disable search, etc always resurfaces and seemed linked to Chrome. Then we upgraded to 365 and it was much worse.
Eventually my laptop was upgraded. A colleague had a RAM upgrade and SSD installed and it seems sorted since.

As much as you think it's not an option to upgrade SSD and RAM, everyone is pointing out that it is probably the only option to resolve it.
Try it on one PC and see how it goes.
 
rambo919 said:
Using an SSD to "fix" this bug is like taking painkilers's to fix a broken toe......
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True. But you will spend more trying to fix it than simply upgrading to SSD. Depending on how much your time and the users time is worth of course.

SSD is also the standard for OS drives these days. So you're just bringing things up to where they should be in any case :)

But if you do happen to actually fix it, I'd be curious to know.
 
Bobbin said:
True. But you will spend more trying to fix it than simply upgrading to SSD. Depending on how much your time and the users time is worth of course.

SSD is also the standard for OS drives these days. So you're just bringing things up to where they should be in any case :)
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But we are not financially ready for it to be standard :ROFL:

I just recently upgraded the office server from a P4 to a Pentium D.... I been begging the boss for a SDD for one program specifically but his response was basically "I won't stop you but I am not paying for it".

Bobbin said:
But if you do happen to actually fix it, I'd be curious to know.
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It's gonna be a weekend job either this or next weekend, will report back.
 
Shella said:
I also had this issue on my work PC that was 4GB RAM and HDD.
I tried different solutions, Defrag, disable search, etc always resurfaces and seemed linked to Chrome. Then we upgraded to 365 and it was much worse.
Eventually my laptop was upgraded. A colleague had a RAM upgrade and SSD installed and it seems sorted since.

As much as you think it's not an option to upgrade SSD and RAM, everyone is pointing out that it is probably the only option to resolve it.
Try it on one PC and see how it goes.
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It's not a financial option.... the tap it eees dryyyy.

Eventually Linux will be the only option left...... oh..... joy......
 
rambo919 said:
It's not a financial option.... the tap it eees dryyyy.

Eventually Linux will be the only option left...... oh..... joy......
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Let me know if the Storage Driver fix works.
 
rambo919 said:
Too small, current win10 installation is already ballooned to 350GB without files that can be moved to storage.
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How the?

My wife has Windows 10 (the bloated Dell installed one), the entire office suite, Photoshop and about a year of usage worth of files, and it's only about 120gb.
 
rambo919 said:
Most of the files are not in user files or in program files.... it's win10 confiscating space.

I suspect system restore has a lot to do with that.... and if I move to SSD's I need to disable that anyway.
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On my wife's Dell system restore did not have a limit. It used EVERYTHING.
75GB of 248GB used. 0mb free. :confused:
 
Option 1: SSD
Option 2: format and reinstall.

Complaining that Windows 10 is slow on a mechanical HDD is complaining that your horse doesn't like running on the N1.
Getting everyone, or at least those with the heaviest workloads, SSDs will reduce time they wait for stuff to happen, reduce frustration and increase morale.
If they can't even spend R1000 per employee, once-off for an HDD, what is the business even doing?
The can start buying one a month even.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
If they can't even spend R1000 per employee, once-off for an HDD, what is the business even doing?
The can start buying one a month even.
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Trying to survive the damage the lockdowns are doing to it's small town clientbase..... that pays small town fee's.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Complaining that Windows 10 is slow on a mechanical HDD is complaining that your horse doesn't like running on the N1.
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Any other os will run fine on a hdd without constant 100% usage, this is a very specific issue with win10. Generally win10 runs fine on a hdd but in some cases things just go south.
 
ponder said:
Any other os will run fine on a hdd without constant 100% usage, this is a very specific issue with win10. Generally win10 runs fine on a hdd but in some cases things just go south.
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Apple hasn't given you an option of a mechanical HDD boot disk for years now.
Linux is probably less demanding, but the desktop experience also isn't as rich in any of the flavours the last time I checked.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Apple hasn't given you an option of a mechanical HDD boot disk for years now.
Linux is probably less demanding, but the desktop experience also isn't as rich in any of the flavours the last time I checked.
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Option or not you can still run os x from a hard drive, internal or external.
Desktop experience has nothing to do with it, run kde with a schitload of processes if you have to.

The point is you're not going to have constant 100% disk usage. This issue is pretty unique to some win10 systems with a hard drive, not all of them.

MS system requirements does not specify a SSD for win10 and hardware vendors ship millions of win10 systems with hard drives satisfying MS requirements.

My system ran fine and never encountered the 100% disk usage issue on a hard drive, while better specced hardware do.
 
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