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    FW and TZ harddisk always in operation?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by bonbooni, Apr 20, 2009.

  1. bonbooni

    bonbooni Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, all
    I have several brands of laptops and allover the years I tried more. The thing I am inquiring about here is the Sony harddisk. I notice that in my TZ and FW series laptops the harddisk is always in operation (I hear it) and the lamp ignites very frequent even when the computer is sitting still not doing anything. I do not see this in my toshibas, Dells, macbooks, fujitsus, nor compaqs. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
    My best regards.
     
    bonbooni, Apr 20, 2009
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  2. jingibi

    jingibi Notebook Enthusiast

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    You will need to disable all VAIO Media Content Management services and if you are on Vista, you could also disable the Microsoft Search service.

    The above services are indexing/catalogueing your HDD contents even when the PC is idle.
     
    jingibi, Apr 21, 2009
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  3. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    That is an urban myth about the Vista indexing service.

    Once the initial index has been completed, the ONLY time the index service kicks in is when a file that was previously indexed has changed or a new file is added that is within the scope of what is to be indexed. If the indexing service is properly setup to only index your data files and programs then the indexing service rarely accesses the hard drive.

    If you want to know what is REALLY accessing the hard drive get the Sysinternals tools, filemon, diskmon or process explorer. All of these can report exactly what is hitting the drive.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Apr 22, 2009
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