Rainbow Dash

Well, do what you have to do. I'm thinking that drive has a faulty pcb or read head, and those will be trouble down the road if you were to keep it. You can always upload stuff to a cloud account and try cleaning up stuff you don't need.

Not a single issues with them yet. Also it looks like your drive performance is a lot different compared to your first one. Could you get a replacement drive from the place that you got it from? Cause that is what I would do if I suspect the drive is faulty. These are my results:

I have multiple PCs, so I'll just list them: First PC: 4x 1TB Seagate Second PC: 1x 1TB Western Digital Blue Third PC: 1x 1TB Seagate Fourth PC: 1x 1TB Western Digital Blue 2x 2TB Seagate 3x 3TB Seagate 1x 4TB Seagate 1x 1TB Toshiba 1x 500GB Seagate Laptop: 1x 500GB Western Digital Black Edition Can you run your HD Tune results again?

The claims only work if you live in California when you purchased one, or if you bought one from AMD's website directly which does not matter where you live.

It is a new HDD and 1TB more than the old so it should be expected that the drive take longer to allocate. From what I remember about HDD is that they have sectors that the data is written to, and once data has been written to there a file containing what is located there is stored like the index of a book. But since the space there has never been used it has to prepare a write to the index like a push/pull. After a while of use and most of the space has been written to it should be a lot faster for Steam to allocate space. But don't take my word for it. What I can say? If it starts throwing up issues such as data corruption, bad sectors, then you should be worried. There really isn't anything I could think of that could be wrong with the drive. Also you can do a drive scan in windows, by right-clicking on the drive and clicking on properties and under Tools:

My broken HDD was thrown out years ago, this is my good HDD. So I think your drive and internet is actually fine and nothing is wrong at all.

That is normal, some programs are resource hogs. The only thing you could do is have less programs opened in the background, or get an SSD or NVME if your laptop has space for it.

That's just disk usage, where a program access the disk and reads or writes to it. It is nothing to worry about. Since it can't be a virus with McAfee running already, we can safely say you have absolutely nothing to worry.

That actually looks the same for me.

The Killer Network Driver might be the issue, I've found posts about it dropping out connections due to the prioritization of the program. You should uninstall it first and see if that works.

Are you running through a Wi-Fi card? Do you also have Killer Network Drivers installed?

Check the fan curve by clocking on the gear beside fan speed: A popup box will show and click ok, here you will be able to adjust the fan speed based on temperature, the yellow dotted line is your min and max fan speed: But you can leave it, or adjust it to your own liking. Click ok. Then make sure you have it set to auto fan speed (When auto fan speed is enabled there should be a grey box): Don't forget to hit that check mark after you are done to accept changes.

The EVGA Precision X1 fan control is buggy and does not work for all GPUs, and you have the GTX 980 which is not supported by it. You should use either MSI Afterburner or the older EVGA Precision XOC.

You don't have to use the dynamic topology, you just select sculpt mode and use subtract: Also Blenderguru used a smaller brush radius and I think he used a drawing tablet, so the strength is based on pressure.

Do you have the Sub-surf on in modifiers? This is how it looks for me when I use dynamic topology: This is how it looks after I disabled dynamic topology and re-enabled the sub-surf:

Is this happening when you download or file transferring from another drive? Can you please list your specs for me?

The bios only overclocks the CPU and RAM, nothing for the GPU, unless it is the iGPU.

It's model specific. My i3-4170 has no copper center, but the Pentium G3258 has one.

Well I guess your drive is fine and healthy, it could be just something else. So you don't have to worry about it. Unless it starts having real issues like file corruptions.

Do the S.M.A.R.T Check. Then if you want, do a short drive self test or short generic. You can also do the long generic if you want over the short generic, it would just be longer.

Alright, I will recommend you to install SeaTools for Windows and see if your drive is having any issues: https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/downloads/seatools/#downloads. Seagate says their program is more accurate for their products so if it doesn't detect anything wrong, I guess it is safe to say your HDD is fine.

This only happened when I moved files to the HDD; anyways it was toast. The cache is for the storage of files that needs to be accessed by the CPU later on but not really needed stuff, so that doesn't matter. So what you are saying is it that it's fine, when you transfer files from the new 2TB HDD to the old 1TB. But it's when you are moving files from the old to new it's dropping down but not all the way to 0 MB/s? If you are moving a lot small files, the speed will drop a lot, while large files will move at a much higher speed which is a normal thing.

No problem. I've had this problem before with a Toshiba drive where it would drop to 0 MB/s and hold it there, due to a damaged to the disk platters.

You can try that. Just make sure you power down your pc and switch off the psu if your psu has a switch before doing it, to reduce risk of static damage.

Yes, make sure your SATA plugs are not loose first, then the SATA power plugs just so we can narrow down some stuff.