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Sometimes when normally using my PC, it will (seemingly) randomly slow down, and maybe sometimes even freeze for several seconds. During this slow down period, it looks like a (I don't know which drive it is) hard drive is constantly being written to. During the last slow down, I started Windows's Ressource Monitor and found out that the System process was writing up to 10MB/s to a drive (I suspect it's the system drive, C:\, but I don't know for sure).
I'm not doing anything unusual (at least, I don't think I am), and most of the time, it will work normally, but, as I said, it just randomly slows down for some times. Any ideas on what might be causing this and how I can prevent this from happening again?
I just unplugged my secondary hard drive, as I suspected it could be causing the problem. And ever since I unplugged it, this DID NOT happen anymore. I don't know why (hell, I don't even know why the System process would write/read from that drive), the only thing of importance on that drive is Steam. Any ideas?
(I have a triple-core processor and 4GB of RAM. My system drive is a WD Caviar Black 500GB, my secondary, 'data' drive is a Samsung drive, which I don't know the model number of, but I can look it up. I can also post my full PC specs if needed.)
I had a similar problem to this. Turns out my HDD was failing. After 3-4 months of this happening in the last week I lost 4,094 sectors and the hDD reported to Windows it was about to fail. I actually had problems copying some of the sectors on the HDD. – Ramhound – 2012-09-21T11:35:27.543
Sometimes reported free space is inaccurate, this will cause all kinds of disc access issues slowing the machine, run a chkdsk /r to resolve this issue. – Moab – 2012-09-21T17:54:13.720