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Hard drive performance tanked suddenly

theroflcopta
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So I have 3 storage devices, 1 SSD for boot and 2 1 TB hard drives for game storage. Everything has been running fine but all of a sudden one of my hard drives has started to degrade in performance. Games would barely load and crash and I could explore the files in it but once I tried to move something or make a change the file explorer would crash (Making a new folder would crash it). Ran a defrag and stuff and still has the problems. Looked at the performance tab, and says it's at 100% usage all the time without any data transfer rates. Note my other 2 drives have no real activity (C is SSD D is other HDD) And at certain intervals as you see in the first pic the usage would drop to 0% and a small transfer occurs. I started to try and pull warframe off of that drive and onto the other since it was really the only game on that drive that I play. And around these intervals is when it would transfer data for warframe. You can see that the usage dips to normal levels when it transfers. And when it does transfer it transfers at normal speeds. Is my drive dying or are there some other shenanigans abound?

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Check your S.M.A.R.T status of the drive using https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/. Looks to be a failing HDD.

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Says were all good. The few moments in the dips of 100% usage it works perfectly fine. Transfers at proper speed and no data is incomplete/corrupted when moved to other drives.

My Rig "Corsair air 540, MSI Z87-G45, i5 4670k, EVGA ACX 780, Gskill sniper 2x8gb 1866 memory, Corsair CX500m modular 80+ bronze, corsiar h100i, toshiba 1.5tb HDD." / Peripherals "Acer H226HQLbid Black 21.5" (Main monitor), Acer S200HLAbd Black 20" (auxiliary), Razer blackwidow ultimate 2013, razer naga 2013, razer goliathus 444x355 speed edition, Sennheiser HD8 DJs"

 

 

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I left my computer idle for awhile I came back to it and was able to tool around in the drive for a bit. Seemed to be working fine, but after a few minutes it went back to 100% usage and has stayed there. Again no data transfers, pegged at 100% every 20-30 seconds dips to no usage for a few moments in that window it functions normally then goes back to 100% usage.

My Rig "Corsair air 540, MSI Z87-G45, i5 4670k, EVGA ACX 780, Gskill sniper 2x8gb 1866 memory, Corsair CX500m modular 80+ bronze, corsiar h100i, toshiba 1.5tb HDD." / Peripherals "Acer H226HQLbid Black 21.5" (Main monitor), Acer S200HLAbd Black 20" (auxiliary), Razer blackwidow ultimate 2013, razer naga 2013, razer goliathus 444x355 speed edition, Sennheiser HD8 DJs"

 

 

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Bump still having this issue

My Rig "Corsair air 540, MSI Z87-G45, i5 4670k, EVGA ACX 780, Gskill sniper 2x8gb 1866 memory, Corsair CX500m modular 80+ bronze, corsiar h100i, toshiba 1.5tb HDD." / Peripherals "Acer H226HQLbid Black 21.5" (Main monitor), Acer S200HLAbd Black 20" (auxiliary), Razer blackwidow ultimate 2013, razer naga 2013, razer goliathus 444x355 speed edition, Sennheiser HD8 DJs"

 

 

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6 minutes ago, theroflcopta said:

Bump still having this issue

I'm wondering if there's a program in the background causing this.

The first thing to do would be to run a virus scan with something like malwarebytes.

Also download Ccleaner, check everything under application and browser, analyze and clean it all.

Would be a good idea to check the registry for problems in it as well while you're there.

Failing that, maybe try booting into safe mode to see if the problem still occurs.

If it does, it's unlikely that it's a program in the background since safe mode stops all non-essential programs from starting.

You can get to safe mode by holding shift while pressing restart in windows and then navigating to the startup options.

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