Unusual transfer speeds

[tektek678]

Hello! You guys are always great help and as a semi-amateur builder, I have run into an unusual(?) issue after some computer upgrading. This is on a personal computer I use primarily for gaming (thank goodness this isn't my work computer!). It has 2 storage drives. A 120 SSD (Kingston HyperX), and a 1tb western Digital Green drive. Both are formatted for NTSF. I use the SSD for strictly my OS and 1 single game. Absolutely everything else I install/download goes on the green drive (hopefully soon to be a black drive). Now here comes the problem. 

 

I was running windows 8, however my ssd had become pretty full, and has slowed down due to excessive drivers and things of that nature (It has been with me through a couple builds) So I bought a fresh install of windows 8.1, completely reformatted my SSD to make sure nothing was left behind, and installed 8.1 Everything seems to be running perfectly, with one catch. All of the sudden, interacting with my 1tb drive is excessively slow. It takes INSANE amounts of time to open certain folders, and programs will hang because of what appears to be slow read times. 

 

Did I mess something up in my upgrading the windows some how? Any help at all would be appreciated, the computer is practically unusable in its current state. Thanks!

[tektek678]

In case you guys need it, here is my full computer specs.

CPU: i7-4770k (overclocked)

CPU cooler: H100i

GPU- DUAL r9-280x

Asus Xonar soundcard

SDD: Kingston HyperX 120gb

HDD: Western Digital Green 1tb

 

My MOBO is an Asus builder's board. I can't remember the exact model, I can look if it is relevant. 

[duckypath]

@tektek678

 

You possibly have the drive sleeping after inactivity, turn it off and see how it goes.

 

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/140592-hard-drive-turn-off-hard-disk-after-idle-never.html