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I have a two-drive setup: an SSD drive for Windows and apps (C:) and D: drive for code and databases. I noticed that while running an IO-intensive operation on the D drive (SSIS), the entire system becomes very sluggish and unresponsive.
The CPU usage is very low and there is plenty of free memory, but the D drive has very high IO. The C drive, however, is not doing much. Is the bus the bottleneck?
davidair
Posted 2014-02-26T20:30:56.293
Reputation: 101
Do you have a pagefile.sys on that drive? – week – 2014-02-26T20:37:25.103
The page file is on the C drive. – davidair – 2014-02-27T05:02:59.080
databases should be also stored on a SSD. – magicandre1981 – 2014-02-27T05:06:54.963
2It's a dev machine, I cannot justify an extra $1000 for two SAMSUNG 840 drives to replace my current 2TB one. – davidair – 2014-02-27T05:18:03.880