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    ExpressCache.exe constantly using esternal HDD on ViviBook S550CM

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by joffrey, Mar 3, 2013.

  1. joffrey

    joffrey Newbie

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    I bought ASUS VivoBook S550CM with hybrid drive SSD/HDD. There are many pre-installed asus utilities, expresscache included.

    Here is the problem: every time I connect any external USB HDD, the LED indicator on external HDD starts to blink. When I open Resource Monitor I see that ExpressCache.exe is constantly writing/reading something from external drive. See screenshot. So all external drives are being constantly accessed. This is slowing them down when I want to use them and they are very noisy. I tried to reinstall asus expresscache utility and nothing changed... Hard reset didn't work too...

    Any idea on how to fix this...???

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    Thank you...
     
    joffrey, Mar 3, 2013
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  2. RWillis

    RWillis Notebook Enthusiast

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    The activity to the disk drives may be caused by a feature in ExpressCache. The design is to defragment all system drives, not necessarily those that would be considered external, via a USB port. The latest version of ExpressCache will not perform defragmentation to those drives connected via a USB port. If this limitation solves your issue then I would contqact ASUS for the distribution of Version 1.0.100 of ExpressCache

    Kind regards...RW


    Here is the problem: every time I connect any external USB HDD, the LED indicator on external HDD starts to blink. When I open Resource Monitor I see that ExpressCache.exe is constantly writing/reading something from external drive. See screenshot. So all external drives are being constantly accessed. This is slowing them down when I want to use them and they are very noisy. I tried to reinstall asus expresscache utility and nothing changed... Hard reset didn't work too...

    Any idea on how to fix this...???

    Screenshot:
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    Thank you...[/QUOTE]
     
    RWillis, Mar 5, 2013
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