Hard Drive working slow

[L0onAt1c]

I recently bought a 2TB Seagate Barracuda for my PC, and it’s been running slow lately, but it hasn’t been like this before the hard drive. I checked task manager and the hard drive appears to be constantly writing, even though I’m not downloading anything and am not running applications stored on the hard drive. My PC keeps stuttering and a YouTube video froze for the first time.

whats wrong with my hard drive??

[SenKa]

6 minutes ago, L0onAt1c said:

I recently bought a 2TB Seagate Barracuda for my PC, and it’s been running slow lately, but it hasn’t been like this before the hard drive. I checked task manager and the hard drive appears to be constantly writing, even though I’m not downloading anything and am not running applications stored on the hard drive. My PC keeps stuttering and a YouTube video froze for the first time.

whats wrong with my hard drive??

By constantly writing, do you mean pegged at 100% in task manager?

[L0onAt1c]

Just now, SenpaiKaplan said:

By constantly writing, do you mean pegged at 100% in task manager?

Yes and the write speed fluctuates between 20MB/s and about 60MB/s

[SenKa]

Just now, L0onAt1c said:

Yes and the write speed fluctuates between 20MB/s and about 60MB/s

That is a bug with windows 10. Make sure Windows isnt trying to run any updates. If it isnt, sort the task manager by disk usage (click on disk usage) and see whats eating it up. Report back with that please

[L0onAt1c]

I checked task manager, as it turned out. Steam was updating games on my hard drive. I feel so stupid now. Thank you so much for your help

[SenKa]

6 minutes ago, L0onAt1c said:

I checked task manager, as it turned out. Steam was updating games on my hard drive. I feel so stupid now. Thank you so much for your help

Not a problem! Windows 10 does have an ever-dreaded 100% disk usage bug thats yet to be patched, I was hoping it wasnt that. As for your HDD, get an optane drive or something to speed it up. You wont regret it

[L0onAt1c]

14 minutes ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

Not a problem! Windows 10 does have an ever-dreaded 100% disk usage bug thats yet to be patched, I was hoping it wasnt that. As for your HDD, get an optane drive or something to speed it up. You wont regret it

I would, but my PC is an old dell Optiplex, so there isn’t much in terms of upgrades. And the bottom PCIe x8 (I believe) is occupied by a usb 3.0 hub.

[SenKa]

1 minute ago, L0onAt1c said:

I would, but my PC is an old dell Optiplex, so there isn’t much in terms of upgrades. And the bottom PCIe x8 (I believe) is occupied by a usb 3.0 hub.

Ah, it isnt even one of the newer-ish ones with a M-Sata WIFI/BT card?

[L0onAt1c]

11 hours ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

Ah, it isnt even one of the newer-ish ones with a M-Sata WIFI/BT card?

I don’t think it does, it’s an optiplex 790.

And I’m using all the pci and pcie slots.

PCI for a sound card. PCIe: x16 slot uses for graphics card and a x4 (or x1) slot is blocked by graphics card, and the x8 (I think) is for my usb 3.0 hub. As I have an external HDD and usb.

[SenKa]

3 hours ago, L0onAt1c said:

I don’t think it does, it’s an optiplex 790.

And I’m using all the pci and pcie slots.

PCI for a sound card. PCIe: x16 slot uses for graphics card and a x4 (or x1) slot is blocked by graphics card, and the x8 (I think) is for my usb 3.0 hub. As I have an external HDD and usb.

Ah, no a 790 is much too old for that. Id say you could get away with removing the sound card but I dont think a PCI -> M.2 board exists lmao.

 

What I would do is use a cheap SATA SSD for cacheing if you want to see a performance bump

[L0onAt1c]

22 hours ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

Ah, no a 790 is much too old for that. Id say you could get away with removing the sound card but I dont think a PCI -> M.2 board exists lmao.

 

What I would do is use a cheap SATA SSD for cacheing if you want to see a performance bump

Caching as in the page filing?

I use the sound card because I’m fed up of the static from the onboard sound.

i already have a 128GB SATA SSD as my boot drive