100% HDD usage when compressing/decompressing

[ipman_98]

I noticed that most of the time when I install a repack, or compress files for one my hard disk usage goes up to 100% and it's kinda stucked there. Which is really painful because I can't do anything on that drive until program finished. Is there anyway to prevent it? I mean like limiting the writing speed.

[aswadd]

the main one that causes this is srep & arc (when storing) , most of the others doesn't take much of ur hard disk usage .. For me i noticed that windows 7 didn't stuck with u as much as windows 8\10 (even if the hard usage if extreme , it didn't stuck , on the other hand w8.1 \10 stuck & goes crazy )
BTW , u should have a good hard desk with a good write & read speed that will solve u the problem from its roots

[ipman_98]

Originally Posted by aswadd

the main one that causes this is srep & arc (when storing) , most of the others doesn't take much of ur hard disk usage .. For me i noticed that windows 7 didn't stuck with u as much as windows 8\10 (even if the hard usage if extreme , it didn't stuck , on the other hand w8.1 \10 stuck & goes crazy )
BTW , u should have a good hard desk with a good write & read speed that will solve u the problem from its roots

and is there anyway (like an argument) to limit writing speed when compressing/decompressing?

[aswadd]

I'm not sure 'cause srep doesn't have & arc don't have neither a parameter to control HDD Usage
For now u should do one of those solutions :
1- Use windows 7
2- Have a new HDD with a good speed\write speed or have a SSD

[aswadd]

3- if u have 2 HDDs u can use one for compressing & the other one for the windows but don't compress the files on the HDD of the windows

[Razor12911]

Well by right, you are not supposed to use computer while an installation is running because you may interfere with what it's doing.