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USB Hard Dive Activity
I powered on my backup 1TB hard drive this AM after not using it for a
few days, and I noticed it stayed acrive for a good 15 minutes with its blue LED flashing, and making noise. Now it is quiet. Why was that? Curious. Johnny |
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USB Hard Dive Activity
On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 07:57:46 -0400, Paul
wrote: wrote: I powered on my backup 1TB hard drive this AM after not using it for a few days, and I noticed it stayed acrive for a good 15 minutes with its blue LED flashing, and making noise. Now it is quiet. Why was that? Curious. Johnny And the name of your "real-time AV" is ? And its policy towards freshly mounted storage is ? Scan ? Scan when you execute an EXE ? Ignore ? Does the partition have an autorun policy ? Does the top level have a lot of videos, requiring that Explorer prepare thumbnails of the videos ? And place the thumbnails so representative icons are present on the drive ? And an entry in "desktop.ini" indicates a "video view" should be used with the folder ? Make sure autoplay and/or autorun are disabled on the OS, as they're a potential malware vector. I'm sure you can think of a few things. If you're running Everything.exe search program, perhaps it just generated a search index ? Most of the time is spent collecting file size info - collecting names only takes two seconds. But the file sizes require scanning the whole disk. While the OS may have a scheduled defragmentation, it's not likely this happened to trip when you plugged in. I've not seen that happen with USB disks. The most likely answer is your AV. Paul Thanks for info. JW |
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