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I bought a brand new HDD(Seagate ST2000DMZ08, 2TB, 7200rpm) for my desktop PC running Windows 10, a month ago. When I installed it, I was getting about a 230mb/s read speed along with a 195mb/s write speed(tested with Crystaldisk mark). I have a not even 1 year old PC, with 1 SSD,and 2 HDD(one HDD that came already installed and one that I added 1 month ago).
Now I noticed since maybe a week or two that the speed of the second HDD(the one I installed a month ago brand new) is now horribly slow; but only mainly in write speed.
When testing, I get ok read speed(sometimes slower than expected though), but the write speed is just incredibly slow(about 1-3mb/s).
In the windows process explorer, under performance, it says that the average response time for that hard drive is 3000ms+, wich isnt normal..
I have no idea why it randomly started to be so slow. And its only that brand new drive that is so slow.And it was fine in the beginning when I installed it. I used a available SATA power cable that was already in the PC, and I bought a SATA DATA cable(brand new again) since there was no DATA cable provided in the PC.
Could the DATA cable suddenly turned defective? Or the hard drive be?
thank you
You didn't say what OS, but depending on that, you may have to manually defragment it. You didn't say what model of hard drive, but you should run the diagnostics from the manufacturer of the drive first. – Jason – 2019-09-06T20:51:14.293
@Jason its a Seagate ST2000DMZ08, 2TB and 7200rpm. I am using Windows 10. I will add these details in the post. There is barely 250GB used out of 2TB on the hard drive. – William Weifenbach – 2019-09-06T21:36:14.983
If you power down the computer and do cold boot, does the speed improve? – harrymc – 2019-09-07T18:05:09.157
@harrymc No, its still really slow – William Weifenbach – 2019-09-07T18:21:20.373