100% HDD usage normal?

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Disk activity 100%, Pieces scan to update databases

Hello Storj Community, I discovered why my HDDs are working insanely, it’s due to the pieces scan executed oftenly. When the scan is launched, container scan each file with it name and update .db files As you can see disk activity is really high [chart2] Is it possible to reduce disk usage at arround 20% introducing sleep times between each file lookup ? HDD are approximatively at 100% and operations are very intensive and may impact the HDD lifetime, HDD at 100% is not a good thing, readi…