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gusty rune Nov 26, 2025, 6:49 PM

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Hi 👋

What I would recommend doing is checking your start up apps and seeing how many are opening on boot.

If you have an antivirus / antimalware installed, it can utilise a lot of drive time whilst scanning.

I would also recommend checking the drives health using a tool such as crystaldiskinfo which will tell you your SMART readings (such as read/writes and up-time)

I had a silicon power SATA SSD die which began to exhibit similar behaviour (high drive usage) just randomlly.

If you want any assistance in what programs you need on boot / other things relating to this, please ping me and I will respond when I can : )

quick pumice Nov 30, 2025, 4:16 AM

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gusty rune Hi 👋 What I would recommend doing is checking your start up apps and seeing ho...

i have basically nothing on startup besides like software for peripherals and I only recently installed antivirus before now I just had window defender and still had the issue, this is what crystal disc showed

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sorry for replying so late didnt see your message

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the SSD is quite new i got it only like 2 months ago

gusty rune Nov 30, 2025, 6:12 PM

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when it goes to 100% , could you open up task manager and check what app is utilising your drive. You can check by clicking the disk button, which will bring the app using the drive the most to the top :)

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