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LTK:
I've recently gotten an OCZ Onyx SSD to run Windows off of, which is working pretty well, only I'm still a bit bothered by the activity of the other hard disks. I know they automatically stop spinning when going too long without activity, which makes a small but noticable difference for the noise. Only I don't seem to have any control over it at all; I've got all my programs installed on the SSD, so there should be no reason for the disks to be spinning, but they won't shut off no matter what I close.
I'm looking for a program that monitors hard disk activity, or another solution you guys might have. Any ideas?
pwhodges:
First, turn off indexing on those disks.
LTK:
First thing I did. SSD's don't benefit of indexing anyway.
Edit; On a hunch I tried to change the power saving options for hard drive shutdown. It's now supposed to stop after five minutes of non-activity rather than twenty, but it's still not quiet. To be sure I've got no peripheral processes running I stopped as many programs as possible from running at startup. If I only knew what it is that's being written or read from the drive...
LTK:
I have the annoying ability to solve problems immediately after asking for help solving them. Power management options worked.
In other news, I just installed a new soundcard, and it sounds excellent. With headphones on, games suddenly sound as if you weren't wearing any. If even a €40 soundcard can make such a big difference, it's not a bad investment at all.
Dimmukane:
I've been out of the loop for awhile...I'm thinking of building a new rig sometime in the next year and I'm not sure what's evolved in the CPU battleground. I've gathered from a cursory glance at some benchmarks that Intel CPUs are generally faster, but I also know that the AMD equivalent tends to be at most half the price. Is the difference really enough to warrant spending an extra 150$ or so? I'm OK with slightly slower CPU performance if it shaves a couple hundo off the total. Most of that savings is likely going to go into a GPU, anyhow.
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