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[SOLVED] HDD gotten extremely slow

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By YonathanZ
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Go to solution Solved by WoodenMarker,

If you haven't already, try defragging the drive. 

Check its health with software like CrystalDiskInfo. 

Is the drive under warranty?

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Hi,

Over the last few days, I've noticed that Overwatch loads very slow - character models take a few minutes to load, as well as the game's menu and pretty much everything else.

I've just checked my HDD's Read speed with HD Tune and the result is a miserable 4.5mb/s maximum (3.7mb/s minimum). All my HDDs are similar models except for their capacity and the others get a read speed of around 145mb/s max so something is wrong here. I have just freed a bunch of stuff from the HDD so it now has 2TB free out of 3.81TB. What else can I do, other than replacing it?

 

Thanks.

 

EDIT: Solved! Turns out a process related to Plex, that checks the HDD for changes in order to update the library, was using 160mb/s of read speed constantly. Changed some Plex settings and it's fine now, HDD is back up speed.

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If you haven't already, try defragging the drive. 

Check its health with software like CrystalDiskInfo. 

Is the drive under warranty?

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10 hours ago, WoodenMarker said:

If you haven't already, try defragging the drive. 

Check its health with software like CrystalDiskInfo. 

Is the drive under warranty?

Just found the issue and updated the OP, but thanks.

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