Help with WD Red WD80EFZX-68UW8N0

[bencho]

Hi!

Can anyone advise on my hard drive?

I've had it in my new rig for maybe 6 months but it's fairly clicky/loud and it is CONSTANTLY at 11-20% write even when my computer is totally idle.

Below is the output from CrystalDiskInfo. Nothing reports as bad but... what the hell is causing all this activity??

Model : WDC WD80EFZX-68UW8N0
Firmware : 83.H0A83
Serial Number : VJH5JNUX
Disk Size : 8001.5 GB (8.4/137.4/8001.5/8001.5)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 15628053168
Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-2
Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 4
Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 2611 hours
Power On Count : 73 count
Temperature : 37 C (98 F)
Health Status : Good
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, 48bit LBA, NCQ
APM Level : 00A4h [ON]
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : D:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 100 100 _16 000000000000 Read Error Rate
02 131 131 _54 000000000074 Throughput Performance
03 144 144 _24 000901C701C8 Spin-Up Time
04 100 100 __0 00000000004D Start/Stop Count
05 100 100 __5 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 100 100 _67 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 128 128 _20 000000000012 Seek Time Performance
09 100 100 __0 000000000A33 Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 _60 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0C 100 100 __0 000000000049 Power Cycle Count
16 100 100 _25 000000000064 Vendor Specific
C0 _98 _98 __0 000000000ACD Power-off Retract Count
C1 _98 _98 __0 000000000ACD Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 162 162 __0 002E000F0025 Temperature
C4 100 100 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 100 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 00000000000B UltraDMA CRC Error Count

 

[bencho]

Anyone else having similar issues or can comment?

 

[mda]

I have two in my NAS/Synology and it's louder than my other drives but can't comment on idle usage...

 

[drescherjm]

CONSTANTLY at 11-20% write

How are you determining that? Is this from windows task manager or similar application to measure disk activity at the OS level? If so something in the OS is causing this.

 

[bencho]

drescherjm - Yes. Just using Task Manager. That's still odd though... How would one begin tracking this down?

 

[drescherjm]

Here is some help on tracking this down:
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/find-out-what-program-is-secretly-accessing-your-hard-disk-drive/

 

[Spartacus09]

CONSTANTLY at 11-20%

Task manager isn't actual usage of the disk, the percentage refers to the disk activity time (disk read and write time).
The better number to look at would be disk transfer rate and check the resource monitor for more detailed usage.

 

[Luke M]

Is this your main OS drive? In that case it's not so surprising. Win10 is always hitting my main drive (an SSD) hard. So much crap running in the background you could spend the rest of your life tracking it down.