Way to see how much Hard drive activity processes are doing?

Hello
Very often in OS X or Windows, the hard drive will just randomly spin up and start doing a ton of activity, slowing everything else down. I tried using the Activity monitor in SL, and the Task manager in windows 7, and neither seem to have a way to view which processes are reading or writing a ton to/from the hard drive. The reason I'd want to know is so if one is doign a ton in the background, I can just kill it and get it to stop slowing the rest down.
Is there a tool for Either OS that allows for viewing hard drive activity per process, or do I just not know what in particular to watch for? (I know it's not CPU% though). This doesn't just apply to my mac pro, but whatever computer I use, whether it be Mac or PC.

Hi Chris,
maybe fseventer http://www.fernlightning.com/doku.php?id=software:fseventer:start is what you are looking for.
Regards
Stefan

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