Excessive hard drive activity on SBS 2008

Hello again.  Now that I've essentially solved the network activity problem, I've found that my SBS 2008 server spends a lot of time on hard disk requests that don't appear to have anything to do with it's role as a file server.  It's reading between
1-2GB/min. about 50% of the time.
Resource Monitor shows that is from sqlservr.exe.  We don't use SQL server or at least not that I'm aware of.  It's just a file server now after our Exchange server was moved to the cloud (Office 365) a couple years ago.
I will try attaching a screen cap from Resource Monitor, showing the problem.
Any suggestions on how to solve this problem are welcome.
Thank you,
Mike

Hi Falcon_73,
Please refer to Jason’s suggestion and check if help you to find which sql service caused this issue.
Just addition, did you check the SBSMONITORING database? Please refer to following thread and KB, then check
if can help you.
Solved:
Why is SBSMONITORING Slow/Using all my processor resources?
The Windows SBS Console of Windows Small Business Server 2008
may crash, display "Not Available" for Other Alerts, or require a long time to display the Security and Other Alerts statuses
If anything I misunderstand or any update, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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