[quote=moneymaker]Resource monitor says my memory is working at about 50% but my hard drive seams to be running around 90%, hard drive light is on almost all the time, have kept it clean and defragmented, it’s getting a little full with only about 15% left. Tried to add more with disk management but it would not allow me to increase, only shrink volume. My stupid HP recovery manager does not work so maybe i’ll delete the recovery partition to get more space, or go buy a bigger hard drive.[/quote]
The recommendation for windows is 20 percent. I would suggest using a SSD for the OS and traditional drives for data storage as others have stated…
I just built a new machine and bought a PCIe SSD for my OS and games. I use traditional HDDs for my videos, pics, documents, and music.
Window 8.1 boots from the SSD in a matter of seconds… Really… about 8 seconds to full boot without credentials… Its a 10 Gbps interface and I get about 8 read and 7 write…
As for throttling… its possible but if your HDD is spinning all the time it sounds like you just need more storage.
BTW… I just bought a WD 2 TB HDD for 67 dollars from FRYs. That is a lot of memory for 75 bucks…
