One of the many reasons I skipped Vista was because of the constant Disk activity when idle. It appears that the same problem exists with Windows 7. I've tried the usual suspects like turning of indexing etc, but the problem it still exists. I'm 99% sure it's not the hardware, because I can play...
ati
beta build
constant issue
diskactivity
gaming
hardware
idle activity
indexing
pentium d
performance
raid0
ram
sata
sql server
troubleshooting
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vista
visual studio
windows 7