Disk Usage? Possible to view useage by drive letter?


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XEmberX

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Hello,

I have a problem where in the task manager performance tab disk usage is 100%. But, in the process tab, it shows as 50%.

Is there any way to view disk usage by drive letter?

Thank you! =)

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Hi,

Please take the time to fill in your specs in your profile.

Drive letters are not always physical instances; therefore, you cannot monitor activity by drive letters or partition.
Since you are using an HDD, it is not that surprising to see spikes to max.
You have two physical disks so disk 0 at 100% and disk 1 is idle or 0% divided by 2 = 50% of disk activity.
You could shift some activity to the 2nd physical drive by moving the pagefile.sys & the swapfile.sys (by symlink).
But I doubt you will see much of an improvement.
 

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OAT said:
Hi,

Please take the time to fill in your specs in your profile.

Drive letters are not always physical instances; therefore, you cannot monitor activity by drive letters or partition.
Since you are using an HDD, it is not that surprising to see spikes to max.
You have two physical disks so disk 0 at 100% and disk 1 is idle or 0% divided by 2 = 50% of disk activity.
You could shift some activity to the 2nd physical drive by moving the pagefile.sys & the swapfile.sys (by symlink).
But I doubt you will see much of an improvement.
Click to expand...
Hello, I filled in my specs. Thanks, so thats why it shows as 50%. Not sure what I can do for the 100% disk usage.
 

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    32GB
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XEmberX said:
Hello, I filled in my specs. Thanks, so thats why it shows as 50%. Not sure what I can do for the 100% disk usage.
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Thanks for the specs.
Windows 11 is quite Read/Write intensive. I am surprised that SSDs/NVMes are not a requirement.
You have a huge HDD as well, 12 TB.
Why aren't you considering getting an SSD, it would make a world of difference.
 

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    8 GB of DDR4
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    AMD Radeon R5
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    1600x900
    Hard Drives
    Seagate 1 TB
OAT said:
Thanks for the specs.
Windows 11 is quite demanding on the drives. I am surprised that SSDs/NVMes are not a requirement.
You have a huge HDD as well, 12 TB.
Why aren't you considering getting an SSD, it would make a world of difference.
Click to expand...
Yea, youre right about an SSD. I just dont have the money right now to buy one.
 

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    Memory
    32GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS
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    Model ST12000NM000J-2TY103 - 12TB
    Model ST2000DM008-2FR10 - 2TB
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XEmberX said:
Yea, youre right about an SSD. I just dont have the money right now to buy one.
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I totally understand and I hope things improve for you.
 

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    Seagate 1 TB
XEmberX said:
I have a problem where in the task manager performance tab disk usage is 100%. But, in the process tab, it shows as 50%.

Is there any way to view disk usage by drive letter?
Click to expand...
No, use Resource Monitor instead. Most likely one of your slower drives is maxing out.

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Hi @XEmberX

Have you tried doing this via the settings app?
Go the Settings app in Windows 11 > System > Storage > Advanced storage settings > Storage used on other drives > then click any drive to review details.

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