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Discus and support Windows 10 high secondary disk IO causes System unresponsiveness in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; My system has two 4TB nvme SSDs and a large SATA HDD for bulk storage of seldomly used files.Windows 10 and all programs are installed to one of the... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by MxJ114, Feb 10, 2025.

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    Windows 10 high secondary disk IO causes System unresponsiveness


    My system has two 4TB nvme SSDs and a large SATA HDD for bulk storage of seldomly used files.Windows 10 and all programs are installed to one of the SSDs.Whenever the HDD is at 100% load with datarates below 200MB/s, the whole system becomes sluggish, especially the explorer windows who freeze regardles of which folder is selected.I already tried enabling "Launch folder windows in a separate process" but it made no difference.Is there some setting that needs to be modified to prevent the freezing?ThanksSystem specs for reference3950X32GB DDR4 @3800MT/s4TB 990 Pro SSDs6TB WD Gold HDD

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    MxJ114, Feb 10, 2025
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    Deepika Gowda, Feb 10, 2025
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    System and Compressed Memory High Disk Usage

    Hi Yousef,

    As you are facing issues with high system memory usage on your PC, we will help you with this issue.

    I understand the inconvenience you are facing with CPU usage by the processes on your device. Do not worry we will help you with this issue.

    These issues might occur due to applications or services running at the startup on the computer. Bad sectors on the hard drive or outdated and incompatible drivers might also cause such issues.

    I suggest you to refer to the below post check if your issue matches with the same.

    If so, I recommend you to try the troubleshooting steps suggested by Amarjeet Paul
    and check if it helps.

    System and compressed memory high disk usage during file
    copy


    Hope it helps. Get back to us with an updated status of this issue for further assistance.

    Thank you.
     
    Deepika Gowda, Feb 10, 2025
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