Win 10 maxing a HDD

[just_david]

Anyone had this issue with windows 10 maxing out a HDD's read/write, while not actually ebing close to what the disk should be able to do?

 

Had it on 2 of my windows 10 PC's now.

the system drive flies, but the 1TB data drive is sticking at 100% usage and read/write speeds of <1MB.

 

I'd normally throw this out as a failing HDD issue, but its not the first time I've experienced this in windows 10 and I've fixed it on another device by reverting to windows 8

 

There doesn't appear to be an app running that's maxing the HDD, only that the max of the HDD is seriously low

[Steve21]

Generally find its the indexing service same as with win8 basically grinds to a halt until it index finish. Disable the service and it normally disappears Might be worth a quick test

 

Steve

[just_david]

Generally find its the indexing service same as with win8 basically grinds to a halt until it index finish. Disable the service and it normally disappears Might be worth a quick test

 

Steve

 

looks like I already disabled that at some point.

[Sagima]

I had this last thursday - was the superfetch service

[Patrick]

Also had this, it was cortanna indexing.

[just_david]

I'll check those out when I get back.

It did a 15 min warning shutdown on me last night and did a diskcheck at the time.

That seems to of resolved it and I'm back to seeing 100MB+ transfer speeds.