Disk activity on Windows 10 refers to how the operating system manages and tracks data storage operations.

F5F Stay Refreshed Hardware Desktop Disk activity on Windows 10 refers to how the operating system manages and tracks data storage operations.

Power_house101
Member

02-16-2016, 09:51 AM

I initially assumed there were other problems but began tracking the boot drive activity. With all applications running at idle, I was using around 4 gigabytes of reads and 10 gigabytes of writes. Once Firefox was closed, usage dropped to about 2 gig reads and 4 gig writes over roughly eight hours, except for a few monitoring programs and Steam. No other processes were running during that time. Was this typical behavior on a Windows 10 system?

Power_house101

02-16-2016, 09:51 AM #1

jdragyn
Junior Member

02-17-2016, 02:23 AM

It's a completely pointless measurement. Data is written or read only when necessary, but its inconsistency makes it unreliable—even after eight hours you're far from accurate.

jdragyn

02-17-2016, 02:23 AM #2

It's a completely pointless measurement. Data is written or read only when necessary, but its inconsistency makes it unreliable—even after eight hours you're far from accurate.