Hard Drive Activity before status update

[wawans1975]

Hello Martin,
I see some harddrive activity before sensor updating the status, why? is this normal? can you make it not happening? kind of annoying, sorry..

 

[wawans1975]

Hello Martin,
I see some harddrive activity before sensor updating the status, why? is this normal? can you make it not happening? kind of annoying, sorry..

Seems disabling SMART makes that hard drive activity disappear :s

 

[Martin]

This is normal, since HWiNFO checks the health status of drives. On some this might trigger certain activity - depends on their driver and firmware.
If you don't want that, you can disable the SMART sensor in HWiNFO.