epson 2450 chews at hard drive

["Newman, Victor F" <VNewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Subject: Re: epson 2450 chews at hard drive
>
>On 28 Feb 2002 at 8:21, pat smith wrote:
>
>> Greeting list,
>> On another list this complain came up <snip> The complaint is while
>>using the twain driver, a 5. something, you start hearing your hard
>>drive whining. Has any of you experienced this and anyone know of what
>>that can do 
>>to your hard drive? I'm presuming the noise comes from the HD working
>>harder, maybe not a great thing for its longevity. 
>>TIA Pat
>
>
>
>When the Twain driver (v. 5.53A) that came with my Epson 780 runs, it 
>causes periodic hard drive access every second or so, no reason known.
I
>
>have plenty of RAM, but even when it's not being used actively it
causes
>
>this clicking access. I exit it whenever I can. Can't be helping drive 
>life, but I suppose it's normal for this Twain driver. It's not 
>"whining". Anyone else notice this?
>
>Don Dement


If I'm not mistaken, I'm one of the co-initiators of this thread on Mike
Chaney's "Profile Prism" Yahoo group.  Mike commented on the Epson Twain
plugin (specifically when used with the 2450), noting that his primary
dislike of it was that "it chews at the hard drive once a second
whenever it's open" (or some words to that effect--"chews at the HD is
an exact quote").  I jumped right in and agreed.  Niether Mike nor I
ever mentioned "whining".  

As Don accurately described above, ANY time the Twain plugin is open it
continuously accesses my HD roughly once a second, regardless of any
other activity that is or isn't taking place.  I also seem to recall
that the Twain plugin for my HP 5300 scanner did the same.  I fail to
see why the program needs to keep hitting the HD, regardless of how
durable drives are nowadays.  My machine, FWIW, is a Dell PIII, 866 MHz,
512 MB RAM, running W Me.  The hard drive "chewing" starts as soon as
the Twain module is up and running, before any scan has started.

Maybe somebody here knows what the Twain module is doing.  

Regards,

Victor Newman

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