Why does my hard drive rev up periodically?

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Whenever I'm on this pc you can hear the hard drive rev up at random times
and Im not sure if this is normal. I have run adaware se, spybot, yahoo
antispy, avast antivirus and everything is clean. I just want to know if this
action is normal and/or is there a way I can make it stop? This pc is a Sony
Vaio PCV-W30 running Windows XP SP 2. I also have a ton of extra space on
both internal hd's, not sure if that's relevant or not.
 
Whenever I'm on this pc you can hear the hard drive rev up at random times
and Im not sure if this is normal. I have run adaware se, spybot, yahoo
antispy, avast antivirus and everything is clean. I just want to know if this
action is normal and/or is there a way I can make it stop? This pc is a Sony
Vaio PCV-W30 running Windows XP SP 2. I also have a ton of extra space on
both internal hd's, not sure if that's relevant or not.
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Random times, once in a while? Yes, it's normal. As your programs perform
different tasks, they may need to access files that support those
functions. Even if apparently at rest, different housekeeping tasks take
place in the background: virtual memory management, indexing; scanning for
viruses to name a few.

It's also possible that the sound is not hard drives but fans turning on
and off as needed to guard against overheating.
 
Hard drives run at a "constant" speed (5400 RPM, 7200 RPM etc). You should
NEVER hear them change speed. Now, if you have the drive set to sleep after
a few minutes (laptops do this), the drive will wake up and spin at normal
speed when required by the operating system.

Are you sure you are not hearing a CD drive or a DVD drive because you left
a disk in one of them!

If it truly is a hard drive that is changing speed (and not just waking up),
you have very serious problems with it!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
it could be the fan. it's not my cd/dvd drive, there's hardly ever any discs
inside. Thanks for all the replies
 
=?Utf-8?B?SW5UaGVab25lQUM=?= said:
Whenever I'm on this pc you can hear the hard drive rev up at random times
and Im not sure if this is normal. I have run adaware se, spybot, yahoo
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Rev up? Meaning you have it set to go to sleep at 5 minutes and a truck
passes by and the mouse moves a bit and it wakes up?
 
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Richard Urban said:
Hard drives run at a "constant" speed (5400 RPM, 7200 RPM etc). You should
NEVER hear them change speed. Now, if you have the drive set to sleep
after a few minutes (laptops do this), the drive will wake up and spin at
normal speed when required by the operating system.

Are you sure you are not hearing a CD drive or a DVD drive because you
left a disk in one of them!

If it truly is a hard drive that is changing speed (and not just waking
up), you have very serious problems with it!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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