PC slow while moving data

[TheGamingLawNL]

Hi guys,

 

I got this issue right now, though it will be over in about 20 minutes I wonder what the issue is.

 

I am currently doing this: 

 

Moving video files from 1 HDD to an other as I have the issue there that I cannot record in 60FPS stable. (Again, last time I fixed it by formatting the drive). As you can see the data transfer speed is low, it started higher off but this is quite low. It's going to a fairly old WD Green for storage. During this process my PC is incredibly slow, even typing this is pretty much going blind as it takes time to show what i've typed. Everything is incredibly slow right now, can't even watch a youtube video without small lockups or open something like e-mail without taking ages. My OS is on a SSD weirdly enough.

 

This is only happening with this transfer. Sometimes the speed goes up to this like the start: 

When it was up here my pc responded normal and fast like it should.

 

I think my HDD is dying or at least that there is something wrong big time. As also my Seagate Barracuda I record games too doesn't reach 60FPS stable from time to time I am worried on what is going on. The seagate is only 1 year old.

 

I have a WD Green, an old Samsung and another Seagate Barracuda running next to the one mention above that is 1 year old. Those are quite a lot older, the oldest is about 6 years. Never had issues and they started last week.

 

Is there any way to figure out some kind of hardware failure in HDDs? My SSDs are tested and running 100% fine. Ramtest succeeded and so did testing with prime95 for cpu.

 

Someone an idea?

 

Edit: Specs in Signature.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Edit: Also using CrystalDiskInfo and there are no issues reported there.

[Deletive]

You're probably maxing out your hard drive.

[gramzon]

You're probably maxing out your hard drive.

What he said, and also depending on file sizes, amount of files etc the transfer speed won't always be stable at maximum speed it will go up and down. Also if it is an external HDD it won't be as fast as an internal hard drive. Regarding your PC slowing down while transferring data, that would be because your computer is trying to run while transferring the files at maximum speed therefore you will see some lag until it finishes transferring

[TheGamingLawNL]

What he said, and also depending on file sizes, amount of files etc the transfer speed won't always be stable at maximum speed it will go up and down. Also if it is an external HDD it won't be as fast as an internal hard drive. Regarding your PC slowing down while transferring data, that would be because your computer is trying to run while transferring the files at maximum speed therefore you will see some lag until it finishes transferring

 

Even though this transfer was to a hard drive that only serves as a storage drive? I mean, no OS on there, no programs etc. That drive is storage only, sometimes acces for documents etc. I find it weird if this is the real cause to be honest.

 

But whilst we're at it. Recording games on 60FPS to a different HDD, it works for a while fluently (shadowplay) but after a few days it won't be able to record higher than 40FPS. Any clue what that could be? Formatting worked earlier to solve this, but issue is back.

[Captain_WD]

Hey there HonorguyNL,

 

transfer speeds depend on many things starting from the read/write speed of both your drives, the ports that you are using (ATA, SATA, USB, etc.) the condition, type and length of the cables that you are using for your drives, temperature and other environmental factors, system specs (RAM, CPU, etc.), the files themselves (number, size, location, fragmentation issues, etc.). 

You did not mention if your drives are external or internal. WD Green is designed for secondary storage and it's a great, cool, quiet drive but the Blue and Black series do read/write faster. Seeing that you have 20 files with an overall size over 135 GB, I'd say you have a normal transfer speed.

In case you would like to make sure your drives are OK and they are not failing, I would suggest you run a disk check on them to see their S.M.A.R.T. status as well as if there are any bad sectors. One tool to use is WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic. I'd run both the quick and the extended tests. Another way is to use the Windows CHKDSK command.

WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810&sid=3〈=en

 

Captain_WD.

[TheGamingLawNL]

 

Hey there HonorguyNL,

 

transfer speeds depend on many things starting from the read/write speed of both your drives, the ports that you are using (ATA, SATA, USB, etc.) the condition, type and length of the cables that you are using for your drives, temperature and other environmental factors, system specs (RAM, CPU, etc.), the files themselves (number, size, location, fragmentation issues, etc.). 

You did not mention if your drives are external or internal. WD Green is designed for secondary storage and it's a great, cool, quiet drive but the Blue and Black series do read/write faster. Seeing that you have 20 files with an overall size over 135 GB, I'd say you have a normal transfer speed.

In case you would like to make sure your drives are OK and they are not failing, I would suggest you run a disk check on them to see their S.M.A.R.T. status as well as if there are any bad sectors. One tool to use is WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic. I'd run both the quick and the extended tests. Another way is to use the Windows CHKDSK command.

WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810&sid=3〈=en

 

Captain_WD.

 

 

Hmmm ok, think I'm getting it.

 

They're all Interal drives btw. Cables are 1 year old and so are all other specs apart from a few HDDs including the WD Green.