OS 10.4 - Hard Drive accessing like crazy

Joe Redifer · Joe Redifer #1 (**permalink**)

11-27-2007, 08:02 PM

Sometimes, seemingly for no reason, my hard drive will be suddenly audibly busy for about two straight minutes (or so). It's almost like it is doing the daily/weekly maintenance thing, but I heard that is only done at 4:30 am, not at 5:58pm. Usually I only have Firefox and Entourage running when this occurs. My older G4 computer (which was running 10.3.9) did not do this... except at 4:30am.

Any ideas?

cwa107 · cwa107 #2 (**permalink**)

11-27-2007, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

Sometimes, seemingly for no reason, my hard drive will be suddenly audibly busy for about two straight minutes (or so). It's almost like it is doing the daily/weekly maintenance thing, but I heard that is only done at 4:30 am, not at 5:58pm. Usually I only have Firefox and Entourage running when this occurs. My older G4 computer (which was running 10.3.9) did not do this... except at 4:30am.

Any ideas?

It could be many things. I would open up Activity Monitor, sort by CPU activity and see what's spiking during the times this occurs. That would at least give us something to go on.

mac57 · mac57 #3 (**permalink**)

11-27-2007, 11:09 PM

Any chance that this is Spotlight indexing files? I am not sure when and how it schedules its work...

mac747 · mac747 #4 (**permalink**)

11-27-2007, 11:19 PM

I bet its your fan and not your drive. If you are hearing a spinning whirr its the fan powering up. I thought the same thing when I first got my MB.

T

Joe Redifer · Joe Redifer #5 (**permalink**)

11-28-2007, 04:01 AM

It's definitely the drive.

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Joe Redifer #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 15, 2007 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 306 Mac Specs: Mac Pro, 8GB o' RAM, 4.5 TB o' disc space, OS Ecks 10.6.7, etc	11-27-2007, 08:02 PM Sometimes, seemingly for no reason, my hard drive will be suddenly audibly busy for about two straight minutes (or so). It's almost like it is doing the daily/weekly maintenance thing, but I heard that is only done at 4:30 am, not at 5:58pm. Usually I only have Firefox and Entourage running when this occurs. My older G4 computer (which was running 10.3.9) did not do this... except at 4:30am. Any ideas?
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mac747 #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 01, 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 385 Mac Specs: 2.2GHZ Macbook Pro - 4GB RAM - 500GB HD	11-27-2007, 11:19 PM I bet its your fan and not your drive. If you are hearing a spinning whirr its the fan powering up. I thought the same thing when I first got my MB. T
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Joe Redifer #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 15, 2007 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 306 Mac Specs: Mac Pro, 8GB o' RAM, 4.5 TB o' disc space, OS Ecks 10.6.7, etc	11-28-2007, 04:01 AM It's definitely the drive.
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