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Why does HDD activity slow the whole System down (on Windows 7)?

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If I copy a large amount of data from on drive to another (physical) drive my whole system is running slow. I am using Windows 7 64bit version on an Intel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz. This is the situation: Very fast copying between two SATA disks. Resource Monitor shows 80MB/s read, 70MB/s writes and 150MB/s…

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Fix for: Why does HDD activity slow the whole System down (on Windows 7)?

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If you're using multiple resources on the same hard drive, then this is normal behaviour. Hard drives are big, mechanical devices which are good at one thing - only doing one thing at a time. You can only read/write to a single sector at a time, so …

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