NIS 2011 File Insight - wddmstatus.exe: high disk read activity

Hi guys,

 

File Insight is reporting high disk read activity on wddmstatus.exe, which is installed with along with WDSmartWare (for use with my WD My Book Essential external hard drive). I know wddmstatus.exe is checking the status of my drive, but 653,629 MB seems like a lot of reading just to check the status of a drive.

 

Other than this reporting, I am not experiencing problems with the software (I don't schedule backups, I do them manually) so I'm wondering if I should leave as is. I didn't actually want the software installed in the first place as it takes up too much memory, but WD advised this could affect normal operation of the drive (hmm) so I left it installed.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks, Jen