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I've got a problem with PC performance when I run Outlook 2010. It's starting for 20 minutes or more. My PST data file is 50 GB, so it's a lot. I moved some messages to new data file, so it takes now 4 GB, and I removed old data file from Outlook. It's still very bad performance - it takes Outlook very long time to reacts to mouse click. PC is new, it's a HP workstation bought in 2015. I also checked HDD with mhdd and there's no problems with blocks, none of them is more than 150 ms, but when I checked SMART, it's showing an error: "reallocated sector count". Could it be a reason of slowing down?
It is hard to tell without more information. E.g. "reallocated sector count" just means some sectors were reallocated. That is normal. Now if that number is rising then you have to worry, But if it had a number of reallocated sectors from when you bought it and it stayed the same then that is just normal. – Hennes – 2016-01-15T23:27:46.330
1Based on experiences from places I've worked, even beefy workstations with fast SSDs have trouble with data files larger than 1GB.... – billc.cn – 2016-01-16T00:14:37.200
1Reallocate sector count indicates a failure – Ramhound – 2016-01-16T00:48:11.500
How much RAM do you have? – cybernard – 2016-01-16T01:01:54.097
What @billc.cn said. Aside from speed issues, Outlook gets unreliable with huge PST files, even though the specs say it can handle it. – fixer1234 – 2016-01-16T02:11:26.110
1Please [edit] your question and include all the SMART data. – DavidPostill – 2016-01-16T11:11:15.783
Also, include whether you are referring to OST or PST. – fixer1234 – 2016-01-17T17:49:33.237
50 GB.. Oh my God !!! Outlook already has issues above 2 GB (search indexes get corrupted easily). Disabling the Windwos Search indexer for PST's in Control Panel may at least give some respite. – Tonny – 2016-01-21T16:50:31.387
@Tonny - That has not been the case for many many versions of Outlook, which includes, Office 2010 – Ramhound – 2016-01-21T17:03:51.383