HD is always reading/writing

My iMac HD seems to always be reading and or writing even when nothing is open. I did the activity monitor and watched the disk activity and just about everything showed 0.0 cpu. My data read/write sec. seem to stay steady around 200kb each. I can hear the HD reading/writing, nothing bad sounding but its always doing it. I've done both disk repair and and permissions as well as booting up from the install disc and repairing. everything said it was normal, no issues. I don't get what's wrong. I'm scared my HD is crashing or something. Can anyone help suggest anything?

Check to see if you are viewing all processes and not just my processes. Could the sound be caused by something other than the hard drive like maybe one of the fans? Do you have any anti-virus software installed?
Some things you can try:
Try booting into safe mode and see if it still happens.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
Go to System Preferences/Software Updates and un-check the box to download important updates automatically.
Look in the upper right hand corner at the spotlight and see if it is indexing the drive.
In Activity Monitor click on Network and see if there is anything continuously going in or out.
George

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Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
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Efficiency of reading/writing files character-by-character

I've been assuming that when I do a file "open for access," that among the housekeeping functions set up behind the scenes, there is some sort of buffer created, the size of which is somehow related to the logical sector size of the disc in question, so that reading or writing short pieces of text, or even single characters, doesn't cause independent physical read/write actions at the disc drive.
Does anyone know if this is true or false? Maybe the question would be clearer posed another way. Suppose I set up a loop to read or write 1024 characters, sequentially, but one at a time. Obviously the loop will require much more time to execute than a singe read or write statement calling for 1K of text all at once. But will there be significantly more activity at the disc drive itself? Will the data be read or written on 1024 successive spins of the platter, or will it be buffered down to one spin, or maybe a couple, depending on the exact location of sector boundaries and so on?
Thanks.

Thanks for this. I was sure some such facility was in operation, but I couldn't find anything explicit on the question. I have a task in which I'm trying to convert what looks like incredibly badly formed XML application files into properly tagged and well-formed XML so that I can then get them through a well-designed XML parser. To decode these utter shambles requires decision logic that goes nearly character-by-character. One tutorial page I found on Applescript file I/O suggested that reading/writing character-by-character was inherently inefficient, which I can see that it is, I just wanted to make sure the inefficiency didn't go all the way down to the mechanics of kicking the disc for every single character. The description in the tutorial was ambiguous, and a little disconcerting.
The tutorial also suggested an alternative strategy of reading an entire file at once into a string and then working with the string. But my files are megabytes long, and I wonder how efficient operations are on megabyte strings, presuming there isn't a limit on string length. Short of trying to do some complex adaptive algorithm, which I might never get working right, I'm pretty sure that keeping to the KISS principal, and just going character-by-character, is a near-optimal strategy in my case.
Cheers.

HD is always reading/writing

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