Hard drive constantly chattering away on new i7 iMac
But I hear my hard drive constantly grinding away when I'm barely doing anything. I notice in Activity Viewer, my hard drive is constantly hundreds of little 100K reads and writes. CPU usage is in the single digits. There's nothing obvious that needs all that disk I/O. I don't think virtual memory is getting hit.
My system just feels sluggish and I can't believe I'm getting rainbow pinwheel of doom with only Safari open.
It feels about as slow as my 2 year old Mac Book Pro. Is the drive in the iMac 7200 RPM? What's going on?
iMac 27" i7 (Mid 2010) / 8GB, Mac OS X (10.6.6)