Alarmist headline apart Windows 10 has been treating my old spinning rust mechanical hard drive as an SSD!!
Which has been painful to listen to and completely unexpected.
I wanted to test Meta Quest Link app on my desktop setup in Windows before I tried Linux as a benchmark. But every time I tried to get something working I would get non stop hard drive noise, even when it was idle.
I checked the disk optimisation and realised my drive was being identified as SSD, which meant it was not being treated nicely.
in a Windows Admin command line window
winsat formal
did actually fix this for me, then 2.5hr of defragging and the drive a lot more settled.
If that command doesn't work for you then these were also recommended.
winsat diskformal
winsat disk -drive X
where X is your drive
Now the Meta quest app is not behaving, but that's a story for another time...
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