[mothered]

Just old ass machine probably.

Agree, that can be the case.

Due to the number of tasks (background Inclusive) running simultaneously, my older lappies are almost always peaking close to 100% disk usage. The Read/Write operations just about come to a crawl. However what's of concern In this case, Is the noise from the HDD. Even when It's maxing out, It shouldn't trigger any noise consistent with what the OP described.