[help] i need help with my 2 TB WD Drive

[Ofir aviel]

hi everyone!

 

i have an issue with my 2 TB Drive.

for quite some time i feel that windows starts to slow down (windows is on a sandisk SSD)

i tried scanning the disk to see if it had some bad sectors, and it showed that all of the sectors are bad (the drive is from 2016). somehow i said to myself lets change the SATA cable and see if it does anything, and it did showed the drive was good, but now it slowed down again, so i took my Ubuntu installation, and tried to run the benchmark using the disks program, and after 6 samples, i get 144.7 MB/s read average and after 5 samples 100.1 kB/s write average.

 

does anyone have an idea of whats going on with it?

 

thank you all in advance,

Ofir Aviel

[Privatech]

Hi! Can you specify your Disk model? I would need more info to tell you whats wrong

[Ofir aviel]

Just now, Privatech said:

Hi! Can you specify your Disk model? I would need more info to tell you whats wrong

WD Red ( and yes, i know its for NAS Use)

[Privatech]

Just now, Ofir aviel said:

WD Red ( and yes, i know its for NAS Use)

Windows is on SSD? If yes then please specify your SSD model.

 

[Ofir aviel]

Just now, Privatech said:

Windows is on SSD? If yes then please specify your SSD model.

 

yes, windows is on a 120 GB Sandisk PLUS SSD

[Ofir aviel]

here is the benchmark after 2 samples:

 

[Privatech]

Your HDD shouldnt impact on loading Windows.

Most people dont know this but SSDs are slower in case:

They have really low storage like 120GB or 240GB

 

Clean your HDD. after some time data on HDD will be scattered around the disc inside which means slow loading times. 

https://macpaw.com/how-to/how-to-make-computer-faster Use this to make your HDD faster. Defragment it and youll see better numbers.

 

You could also have downloaded malware without knowing.

[Privatech]

Also since you are using linux use this:
https://thelinuxcode.com/defragment-hard-drive-ubuntu/

[Ofir aviel]

1 minute ago, Privatech said:

Your HDD shouldnt impact on loading Windows.

Most people dont know this but SSDs are slower in case:

They have really low storage like 120GB or 240GB

 

Clean your HDD. after some time data on HDD will be scattered around the disc inside which means slow loading times. 

https://macpaw.com/how-to/how-to-make-computer-faster Use this to make your HDD faster. Defragment it and youll see better numbers.

 

You could also have downloaded malware without knowing.

One of the things I did, was I have my desktop saved to my OneDrive, and OneDrive is on my HDD, but it still does not explain why the disk is slow

[Privatech]

Just now, Ofir aviel said:

One of the things I did, was I have my desktop saved to my OneDrive, and OneDrive is on my HDD, but it still does not explain why the disk is slow

Cheap SSDs have always been slow. Instead of spending 40 $ on a SSD spend 90$ or 100$. Also: DO NOT Defragment your SSD. It will permanently break it.

[Ofir aviel]

1 minute ago, Privatech said:

Cheap SSDs have always been slow. Instead of spending 40 $ on a SSD spend 90$ or 100$. Also: DO NOT Defragment your SSD. It will permanently break it.

I ment the HDD not the SSD

[Privatech]

2 minutes ago, Ofir aviel said:

I ment the HDD not the SSD

As I said delete unsued programs and files. And then defragment it.

[Kilrah]

How full is the HDD? Unless it's almost full it's most likely failing, do NOT defrag it, just copy the important contents to another drive ASAP and replace it.

[Ofir aviel]

32 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

How full is the HDD? Unless it's almost full it's most likely failing, do NOT defrag it, just copy the important contents to another drive ASAP and replace it.

I would say it's almost full:

 

[Kilrah]

OK so nowhere near full, I meant if you had less than 100MB free it would be normal for writes to slow down as it tries to find free sectors scattered across the drive.

 

So most likely dying drive.

[Ofir aviel]

27 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

OK so nowhere near full, I meant if you had less than 100MB free it would be normal for writes to slow down as it tries to find free sectors scattered across the drive.

 

So most likely dying drive.

Well, if i try to check the free size in diskpart, it shows me this:

DISKPART> 
  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          111 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online         1863 GB  1024 KB        *

 

[Kilrah]

That just tells you there is no space that isn't used by a partition, which is perfectly normal. Nothing to do with how much is used on that partition.