Vista wears out HD faster?

alienationware

alienationware

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Does your hard drive sound different when it's working in Vista compared to XP? Under Vista, my HD sounds like it's on its last breath. Is Windows Vista overworking the HD? (Causes the head to move back and forth more frequently than XP)? Is Vista purposely trying to sabotage your computer, so you'd get a new one with better specs to match any new OS release?
 
Vista doesn't wear out the hard drive as many have thought, it actually does not damage it at all by loading a lot. If it is continuously loading, perhaps you'll need more RAM.
 
Vista does cause a lot of HDD activity, the main culprits are two processes: one called SuperFetch and the other indexing. SuperFetch keeps track of applications that are used the most and has them loaded in the memory so that they can be started up quickly. Indexing causes most of the noise though, especially just after installing Vista. Basically it sets up an index of all the files on the HDD(s) so that you can search for files faster.
 
alienationware said:
Does your hard drive sound different when it's working in Vista compared to XP? Under Vista, my HD sounds like it's on its last breath. Is Windows Vista overworking the HD? (Causes the head to move back and forth more frequently than XP)? Is Vista purposely trying to sabotage your computer, so you'd get a new one with better specs to match any new OS release?
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its not a conspiracy. if your computer sucks, it sucks. theres no reason to blame anything on vista any more, it is just as capable as windows xp. i mean, if you take an xp computer and stick vista on it, its comparable to sticking windows 98 on a DOS based computer. your going to run out of ram, and your hard drive is going to be stressed.
 
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