which of the suite’s apps will let me see what files are requesting access to my hdd’s.
reason i ask.
my o.s is on nvme.
my personal data is stored in the normal windows user on the same drive.
with nothing installed thats using a path to any of the hdd’s
my hdd’s are set to sleep after 10 mins.
but every 20 mins or so even if my system is idling. the hdd’s start spinning up.
a few bytes are read and they go back to sleep.
so yeah i wanna know whats accessing them regularly and for what reason.
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That does not log though, so OP would have to be watching that screen all the time, or open it /focus on it each time the activity occurs, then identify the app from the list at the time?
Maybe process explorer monitor from sys internals might help, but it has maybe too much info to sort through- filters would be the key
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oh boy what did i ask 
yep thats quite a list.
so plumped for diskmon. il just idle the machine and see what happens… 
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turns out its windows own file system optimization.
even though i have told windows i didnt want it looking after my files.
its decided it would regularly defrag my drives anyway.
end result is all my data is now sitting on the outer tracks which means new data being written is being put on the slowest parts (the inner tracks). slowing everything down in the process. 
so thanks again microsoft.
you keep offering help i dont want or need. 
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