Last term I took a class that required 3 VM's to be running at the same time, two DC's and a client. They ran fine, this term even booting up one brings my disk usage to 100% and keeps it there for a long time. Performing actions seems to affect it as well, but when it sits it does nothing. The system bogs down and is a mess when it is at 100%. The only change is that I'm running Windows 8.1 Professional vs Windows 8.1 Home.
It is a clean install with no viruses or malware. Virtualbox seems to be the factor. Hard drive tests fine with chkdsk -r, sfc /scannow. I did go out and purchase a SSD and it works great with the cloned image but I am simply trying to determine if it is the hard drive or a compatibility issue. Do you know if a hard drive can have faults that just don't show up on the checks I've mentioned? Or has anyone else had issues such as the one I'm having?
High Disk Usage
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mpack
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Re: High Disk Usage
VirtualBox itself doesn't use any disk I/O past the disk creation stages. However if the guest OS is doing a lot of disk I/O then naturally this is passed to the host. I suggest that you find out what the guest is doing. Only hard data will really answer your question.