Slow Internal 2TB Hardrive

[CrimsonRampage]

At the end of last year i got a 2TB Seagate hardrive to put all my steam games on as i only had a 240gb SSD. When i first got the hardrive it worked fine speeds seemed good but once i put a couple games on it would slow down to a crawl and i don't know why it slows down i don't put heap of files/game on it its not full, currently i have used 182gbs of 1TB (i partitioned the drive) but even when it wasn't partioned it would just slow down. I have reformated it three times i think and it's just keeps happing. It's good for a while but once i install a couple games and my steam library it just so slow if anyone could help it would be much appreciated

 

Crystal Disk Mark for my 2TB hardrive https://gyazo.com/486588588123e35233692362b73a4a81 

 

Comparison Crystal Disk Mark results from my older 1TB external https://gyazo.com/52fe0eb034fdf9c6242229130bc76571

 

 

I don't know if i need to add anythigng else to this post apart from crystal disk results

 

If ive done soemthing incorect in the post please tell me so i can fix it (First time posting on a forum (I think))

 

 

[Skiiwee29]

how full is it? From the looks of it, its like 850gb or so used.... Hard drives generally slow down in performance over 50% used for mechanical drives... I think its time for you to upgrade to a 2 or 3 tb drive. 

[Murasaki]

Those speeds are abnormally low like USB2.0 or something. Might want to reinstall your SATA controller driver? 

[Domifi]

43 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

how full is it? From the looks of it, its like 850gb or so used.... Hard drives generally slow down in performance over 50% used for mechanical drives... I think its time for you to upgrade to a 2 or 3 tb drive. 

The upper image is his old external one

[CrimsonRampage]

2 hours ago, legacy99 said:

how full is it? From the looks of it, its like 850gb or so used.... Hard drives generally slow down in performance over 50% used for mechanical drives... I think its time for you to upgrade to a 2 or 3 tb drive. 

Sorry the one that is almost fiull is my external hdd and the one that is only 180gbs used is my partitioned 2tb hdd

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, CrimsonRampage said:

Sorry the one that is almost fiull is my external hdd and the one that is only 180gbs used is my partitioned 2tb hdd

What motherboard do you have and what Hard drives?

[CrimsonRampage]

1 hour ago, ModuleLFS said:

Those speeds are abnormally low like USB2.0 or something. Might want to reinstall your SATA controller driver? 

How do i go about doing that, do i go through device managewr or is there a different way of doing it

[CrimsonRampage]

1 minute ago, legacy99 said:

What motherboard do you have and what Hard drives?

I have a Gigabyte Z97M-D3H motherboard (1150 socket) a 240gb Kingston SSD and a Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM006

[Murasaki]

3 hours ago, CrimsonRampage said:

How do i go about doing that, do i go through device managewr or is there a different way of doing it

Get the driver here in the "SATA AHCI/RAID" category. Choose whichever is for your OS. 

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z97M-D3H-rev-10#support-dl

[CrimsonRampage]

4 hours ago, ModuleLFS said:

Get the driver here in the "SATA AHCI/RAID" category. Choose whichever is for your OS. 

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z97M-D3H-rev-10#support-dl

Okay so i downloaded the file and extracted the the other files from it, i see on the website it says  "Note: Windows setup to read from USB thumb drive." what do about that and hwo do install the drivers now 

 

[Murasaki]

4 minutes ago, CrimsonRampage said:

Okay so i downloaded the file and extracted the the other files from it, i see on the website it says  "Note: Windows setup to read from USB thumb drive." what do about that and hwo do install the drivers now 

 

That's strange. From what I remember rightclicking on the inf files and "Install" did the job but I'm not sure why they come in that form..

[CrimsonRampage]

 

4 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

That's strange. From what I remember rightclicking on the inf files and "Install" did the job but I'm not sure why they come in that form..

The red circle is the one i downloaded was that the right one or is it the other one that i needed to download

[Murasaki]

I think these might be already preinstalled with windows then, sorry for wasting your time with this.

[CrimsonRampage]

2 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

I think these might be already preinstalled with windows then, sorry for wasting your time with this.

No it's all good thank you for trying to help me and thank you for responding fast (: