Title: Noisy HDD Post by: Wildy on August 18, 2011, 01:47:21 PM I've just finished setting up a dedicated rig, and although I would have liked to have had an Arch install on a USB stick, the ATI drivers were being a pain in the ass and so I just went with a HDD install of Win7 instead.
I'm using a 7,200 RPM Western Digital drive I had lying around (SATA) and it's as noisy as hell - as in it's constantly churning. I've disabled Windows Search Indexer but that did nothing. What else could it be? I mean it's a fresh install and the only things I have on it is the mining stuff which should all be memory/GPU with no disk IO. Is there a program which can tell me which processes are accessing the HDD? Thanks in advance, Mike Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: Bitsky on August 18, 2011, 02:11:49 PM Sysinternals -> Diskmon
Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: Wildy on August 18, 2011, 02:30:11 PM I should have mentioned I already tried that, but I couldn't see any indication of which process the IO op belonged to.
Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: joulesbeef on August 18, 2011, 03:01:23 PM this might help with the noise some.. auto acoustic management (http://superuser.com/questions/18084/enable-aam-on-western-digital-hard-drive)
and you want to use process monitor, not diskmon from the same suite. or use resource mon that comes with vista or 7 but it isnt as friendly as process monitor. Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: wknight on August 18, 2011, 04:47:14 PM Use Spinrite.. enough said.
It has saved me so many times! http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: pekv2 on August 18, 2011, 05:26:29 PM I have an SSD, there were a ton of writes going to the SSD on my Win7 OS. Except for an SSD, writes will wear down the SSD, for a HDD, it will work the HDD pretty harsh.
Here are a few tweaks that will stop writes to the HDD, eliminating HDD noise. 1) Disable windows event logs operations. Code: Now on to some things we can do to reduce some on the unnecessary writes an SSD or HDD. Windows 7 2) Disable Indexing. Code: Description: Indexing creates and maintains a database of file attributes. This can lead to multiple 3) Disable Windows Disk Defragmenting & use something like MyDefrag, and defrag whenever you like. Code: Description: Defragmenting a hard disk's used space is only useful on mechanical disks with multi- Code: Description: Disk Defragmenter schedule allows to run defragmentation automatically in Windows 4) Disable superprefetch & prefetch. Code: Disable Superfetch Code: Disable Prefetch 5) Disable system restore and use an image backup software like acronis or clonezilla. Code: A. One recommendation I would suggest is to use Resource Monitor that is built in Win7, goto the Disk tab, and watch what Image is writing to the HDD after all these tweaks are done. Google them, find out how to disable them, don't worry about "System, kernel & a few others that cannot be disabled". I believe there are a few more tweaks. Use google. Hope this helps you & your HDD. Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: TiagoTiago on August 18, 2011, 05:47:56 PM I think the Bitcoin client keeps writing to a .log file constantly (it's in the same folder as the wallet.dat file); that might be worth looking into as well
Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: pekv2 on August 18, 2011, 05:54:32 PM I think the Bitcoin client keeps writing to a .log file constantly (it's in the same folder as the wallet.dat file); that might be worth looking into as well Yes, that as well, I was just thinking about bitcoin client. If he has a second HDD on hand that don't make noise like this one or USB stick or SDHC card, I used this how to and created a junction. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9301.0 Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: Wildy on August 18, 2011, 06:19:29 PM Thanks for all the tips guys - using a combination of the above I have managed to tame the beast (for the time being).
Cheers, Mike Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: lxFlasHxl on August 19, 2011, 12:10:32 AM good info. ;D
Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: leeloulee on August 19, 2011, 05:15:27 AM that helpd me
Title: Re: Noisy HDD Post by: Knighty on August 19, 2011, 05:18:47 AM Ooo, didn't know about some of those tips pek, going to have to remember this thread.
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