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owens_jma
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February 6, 2020
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Why is Premiere constantly accessing "unused" hard drive?

  • February 6, 2020
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In one of several "experiments" to speed things up on an underspec'd computer, I installed Premiere Pro and all my related project files on the same (internal) SSD (and set all media & media cache to the SSD as well).  Does anyone have a guess as to why (especially during playback in the program panel) the hard drive is getting worked pretty hard by the PC (this is where everything stalls)?

 

P.S. While I certainly appreciate general tips on improving Premiere performance etc (and I have tried many), I am not really looking for anything here but specific ideas on the hard drive issue.  I have no system restore operating, and no virtual memory allocated anywhere outside the SSD.

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Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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February 7, 2020

Just a guess:

Another application might be accesssing it?

Are you sure it's Premiere Pro that is accessing it?

 

What does Task Manager and Resource Monitor show?

What files are on the drive?

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owens_jmaAuthor
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February 10, 2020

So Task Manager shows nothing and Resource Monitor showed nothing unexpected...BUT I decided to just bail on the old computer and moved things over to a high-end gaming PC which resolved everything.  Thanks for your initial efforts!  I would like to delete this post but don't see a way to do it....

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