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I recently completed a difficult reinstall of Windows 10 on my Dell XPS 8700. I got over the final hurtle by completely disabling any RAID so that the SSD and HDD were separate devices. I also loaded the latest Intel Drivers during the install.
The system has been stable except for a problem that occurs every 20 minutes or so. I can't paste a picture of the Task Manager to illustrate but will describe it. My HDD, which has the OS loaded, jumps to 100% activity with no I/O except for every 13 seconds. Then there is a short burst period of read/write in a perfect pyramind. Never registers more than 100 KB/s. However, the average response time jump to 10's of thousands of seconds.
During this period, all running applications show to a crawl. Web browsers work until they've appeared to run out of cached data. Email goes into 'Not Responding' when trying to open a new email.
Looking at the Resource Monitor, there are a lot disk activity where the response time is in the 10's of thousands of seconds.
Using the Resource Manager CPU and DISK I've tried to find a pattern, file, process that could be culprit. So far nothing.
I've searched the web and attempted some fixes. My pagefile is on the SSD but there is little activity. I have 16GB of memory and rarely get over 12GB of use.
The behavior is like there is a process/function that wakes up, issues a blocking synchronous I/O, and every 13 seconds performs some reads and writes. It's the static behavior of the duration and the 13 second I/O pattern which leads me to believe it is driver/software issue.
Everything is up to date. The disks are managed under Intel's Rapid Storage Technology that is installed on the XPS 8700. It is designed to support RAID but as mentioned, I've completed disabled that.
Any suggestions well.
Thanks
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The system has been stable except for a problem that occurs every 20 minutes or so. I can't paste a picture of the Task Manager to illustrate but will describe it. My HDD, which has the OS loaded, jumps to 100% activity with no I/O except for every 13 seconds. Then there is a short burst period of read/write in a perfect pyramind. Never registers more than 100 KB/s. However, the average response time jump to 10's of thousands of seconds.
During this period, all running applications show to a crawl. Web browsers work until they've appeared to run out of cached data. Email goes into 'Not Responding' when trying to open a new email.
Looking at the Resource Monitor, there are a lot disk activity where the response time is in the 10's of thousands of seconds.
Using the Resource Manager CPU and DISK I've tried to find a pattern, file, process that could be culprit. So far nothing.
I've searched the web and attempted some fixes. My pagefile is on the SSD but there is little activity. I have 16GB of memory and rarely get over 12GB of use.
The behavior is like there is a process/function that wakes up, issues a blocking synchronous I/O, and every 13 seconds performs some reads and writes. It's the static behavior of the duration and the 13 second I/O pattern which leads me to believe it is driver/software issue.
Everything is up to date. The disks are managed under Intel's Rapid Storage Technology that is installed on the XPS 8700. It is designed to support RAID but as mentioned, I've completed disabled that.
Any suggestions well.
Thanks
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