Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Now that I am running Vista on all my machines I'm much more aware of all the hard drive clanking going on around me. On XP my machines would eventually get to a "resting point" where the machine would stop doing stuff.
On Vista it seems like "stuff" is always happening. I'm beginning to wonder just how much Mean Time To Failure is a number we might pay attention to for hard disks.
Anyway, my buddy Mike Fullerton posted a nice entry on how to find out just what the heck your hard drive is doing.
The big offenders on my computer?
#3 and #5 seem to tag team together in a WWE Smackdown on the hard drive.