Ares and continous HDD activity

[eXTREME2002]

Hi
I use Ares 1.9.1 and it works fine except the following problem:
I like 2 choose my downloads 2 go 2 the E: partition of my HDD so that when i image the C: partition , the image file does not become so big but doing so (choosing the E: partition) makes ares use the HDD continously - do not know why - i guess this may be coz the data it downloads goes first somewhere on the C: partition and then Ares flushes this data back to the E: partition. As a proof 2 my guess, i have changed back the download folder 2 any folder on the C: and the HDD activity has gone away
Is there any way 2 choose my downloads folder 2 be on the E: while keeping the HDD from screaming ?

[DigitalJunkie]

How much are your system's memory & hard drives (on C:, D:, & E:) capacity do you have?

[eXTREME2002]

How much are your system's memory & hard drives (on C:, D:, & E:) capacity do you have?
PLENTY
RAM: 512 MB
Lots of free gigs on each partition so the RAM and HDD free space r out of question/guilt

[Mels_Smileys45]

As long as you are imaging your C drive, its gonna stay pretty busy while downloading. Why not just simply download to the E drive?

[DigitalJunkie]

Actually, if you download a lot, your 512Mb RAM is not much due to Windows are also using parts of it. So, when memory gets full, it would flush to write often. I've 1Gb RAM plus another 1Gb hard disk virtual memory on C: drive. You may wish to add more RAMs or allocate more space for virtual memory on selected hard drive to reduce flush to write often.

[shawners]

You can choose to flush data in different intervals to that drive, but your program is running and keeping things going on one drive, and then keeps sending the data to the other part of it, so it will be busy through out. I encode files from my external to my c-drive to be burnt, so my external runs all the time when it is happening.