My E drive seems to be taking naps even though I have power management off...

I have noticed this to a degree. I think its in the drive as a way to keep heat under control and to lengthen lifetime. I have 5 HDs on my system plus 2 removable ones in 2 drives bays(system drive is one of those). So often there is a delay in opening up a drive's folder. Sometimes its Windows doing an index. 

Well if it's normal I can live with it. When I get going on the recording stuff my mind starts moving so fast that second or so seems like forever but aside from that one engine stop (which really was insignificant) it hasn't caused any issues. Just thought I'd see what you guys had to say on the matter. Cheers.

Open your drive properties,enable ready boost,max setting ,this will give you a 4gb cache,and will also leave your drive in use always.gives a nice preformance boost also.

@Gary... Thanks, man. I may have already done that when I optimized but I'll double check. It's just a little annoying having such a high powered system getting slowed down by something so simple. Cheers.

Windows keeps track of your files for searching. It looks into them and at them to find things it can tag for a search.

It does this at times to update its index.  In the past before Vista Windows did this but very badly. It often could find anything or index well. After MS brought Vista they changed the file indexing completely both for speed and accuracy.

Keep in mind that if you have a file but can't find it it might as well be lost. With mega hds out its more important than ever to be able to search them and find a file quickly. 

I would go to MS and read up on indexing.

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I usually just go through the folder trees to find what I want. I'm pretty meticulous when saving/naming things... but yeah I probably should read up on it.

Me too for recent stuff. But I have stuff going back many years thats why I have so many HDs.

Also indexing in Vista/Win 7 can look into files such as txt and doc files to find a phrase that one may know but not know what file its in.

Its like a database of your files. Most people are unaware of its power. They may think its like it was in XP.

Oh... they fixed it so it can peek into the actual content of documents now? Yeah that's useful.

Or not. 


If you have a few tens of thousands of files and you are looking for a phrase that is in only one--excellent. In indexed locations the search is very fast. If your search word is in a few thousand files, you will get them all. Then you will need to use search filters to narrow it down. If you are looking for a file that you know is named the.txt, and you just type in "the" in the search box and do not preface your search with the filter "name: the", you will find everything in the index with the word "the" or therapy, or theory, etc. in it. The first time you do a search and get four thousand hits, you may wish the default was to search by name. Then you can start to memorize the advanced query syntax.

Yeah I thought I had already done that but maybe it only changed the C drive. That drive seems to be fine.

No Randy because I often supply the extension when I search. You are right, there do seem to be a bunch of extensions that have no meaning to me but they do to various programs, I hope.  Some of them seem to have no meaning to anything. But I'll bet if I were to delete one the whole world will come and end!