busy writing to disk or disk idle

[HipoTico]

always ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time it happens when i download dota i meant the updates it always happens and the download takes so long idk why even though i got a good internet connection. could anyone tell me what is the problem or anything .thnx

[Vaemer-Riit]

Disk Busy means the bottleneck is your Hard Drive not your internet.

Steam (for a while now) downloads just the changes, and then makes a copy of the affected files, patches them, and then overwrites the old files with the patched ones.

This saves you time with the download (you no longer have to download an entire 8GB file to fix a 10 MB error inside the file) but requires much more disk access (Most of the game files have to be copied twice)

[HipoTico]

Originally posted by Vaemer-Riit:

Disk Busy means the bottleneck is your Hard Drive not your internet.

Steam (for a while now) downloads just the changes, and then makes a copy of the affected files, patches them, and then overwrites the old files with the patched ones.

This saves you time with the download (you no longer have to download an entire 8GB file to fix a 10 MB error inside the file) but requires much more disk access (Most of the game files have to be copied twice)

ok thanks

[The SpaceChicken]

so there isnt a way to solve this or make this "problem" less common?

[The SpaceChicken]

Originally posted by TeddyLeTacoNL:

Huh??

im explaining this from the start as I dont know how much you know already.
your Hard drive (for example (C:), (D:)) are modules in your pc, these modules can "think" on a specific speed. if your Hard Drive module is used by a program that wants to think him faster, this module blocks for a second untill he has made enough free thinkingspace to use that program again.

A little bit weird explained (dont even know how I could up with this) but it is, unless the terms I used, correct for as I know.

Hope I helped, Pcorner.

[Growndler]

I also got the problem.. i downloaded with the same speed like always and it just stopped.. but now its normal again and i can downloadwith fullspeed.. dunno why

[Kazma]

Originally posted by Vaemer-Riit:

Disk Busy means the bottleneck is your Hard Drive not your internet.

Steam (for a while now) downloads just the changes, and then makes a copy of the affected files, patches them, and then overwrites the old files with the patched ones.

This saves you time with the download (you no longer have to download an entire 8GB file to fix a 10 MB error inside the file) but requires much more disk access (Most of the game files have to be copied twice)

But how can we speed this up or make it easier in any way?

[cyanic]

Originally posted by Evil Jell0:

But how can we speed this up or make it easier in any way?

If you change things on your hard drive a lot, try defragmenting if it isn't scheduled automatically already. Don't run other programs that accesses the hard drive a lot while you're updating games.

[Kazma]

Originally posted by cyanic:

Originally posted by Evil Jell0:

But how can we speed this up or make it easier in any way?

If you change things on your hard drive a lot, try defragmenting if it isn't scheduled automatically already. Don't run other programs that accesses the hard drive a lot while you're updating games.

give me some examples?

[The SpaceChicken]

Originally posted by Evil Jell0:

Originally posted by cyanic:

If you change things on your hard drive a lot, try defragmenting if it isn't scheduled automatically already. Don't run other programs that accesses the hard drive a lot while you're updating games.

give me some examples?

when you play a game that is downloaded on for example the C drive, and youre downloading a different game also on the C drive. you ask your hard drive to store the data you downloaded, while it is bussy giving the data your game needs to run.

its like baking an apple pie while preparing dinner, it may be too much for you to do both at the same time, so you have to 'pause' one of the two

[Kazma]

Originally posted by 13D00:

Originally posted by Evil Jell0:

give me some examples?

when you play a game that is downloaded on for example the C drive, and youre downloading a different game also on the C drive. you ask your hard drive to store the data you downloaded, while it is bussy giving the data your game needs to run.

its like baking an apple pie while preparing dinner, it may be too much for you to do both at the same time, so you have to 'pause' one of the two

But if you take the apple pie and put the dinner inside then cook you get a delicious pie dinner thing. :D

That would probably kill you

Or just taste bad

It wouldn't work

[ReBoot]

There's one logical answer to drive bottlenecks: get a faster drive. That is, get an SSD, install Steam there. Problem solved.

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upgrade your computer..

[The SpaceChicken]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

There's one logical answer to drive bottlenecks: get a faster drive. That is, get an SSD, install Steam there. Problem solved.

the problems with SSD's is that they are so over priced..
it is the solution though..

[Hi-Torque]

Originally posted by 13D00:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

There's one logical answer to drive bottlenecks: get a faster drive. That is, get an SSD, install Steam there. Problem solved.

the problems with SSD's is that they are so over priced..
it is the solution though..

Maybe. SSD for now are great for your OS. But a typical platter HDD should have no problems unless its either very old, or the bios setting are configured wrong.

[ReBoot]

Define "no problem". Looks like seeing the disk busy-message is a problem for some people and you'll always see that, even with a good HDD. Frankly, getting an SSD won't get rid of it either, it will just shorten it.