Seemingly slow HDD speed

[fringie]

Hi,

 

My work computer seems to perform pretty badly for a computer of its stature (Xeon i5 1230, 16gb ram, some firepro gpu, and 2x Seagate Barracuda 16mb cache 500GB 7200RPM HDD's [only 100gb used], Windows Server 2012 R2 = basically windows 8).

Problem is that I'm forever waiting for things to load/applications become responsive a bit more frequent than my liking, I'm aware that everything basically works bar the odd unresponsive page every like hour but I'm so sure even with a HDD it's not this slow. Performance reminds me of my laptop at times that rocks a 5400 RPM HDD.

 

So I had a look in the resource monitor and didn't see anything worrying. The only thing of note is my HDD is usually low usage but occasionally spikes to like 80mb when I open the resource monitor itself. Any suggestions how I can try to diagnose this/any free HDD speed benchmarking tool. If I can get something to show hopefully I can pass this on so I can get a parts replacement or something. 

 

Thank you!

[bgibbz]

Try using Chrystal disk mark, it's a free bench marking utility for hard drives. 

[toasty6776]

You could try running Windows' built-in disk diagnostic tool, although you do need admin permissions in order to access that (which might be an issue on your work machine). 

[fringie]

20 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

Try using Chrystal disk mark, it's a free bench marking utility for hard drives. 

It looks like it's fine but it doesn't feel like it's performing at that speed.

11 minutes ago, toasty6776 said:

You could try running Windows' built-in disk diagnostic tool, although you do need admin permissions in order to access that (which might be an issue on your work machine). 

Alright I will do thank you.