Seagate 2TB ST2000DM001 running extremely slow

Name · 14 Aug 2016 at 02:51

Hi there,

Recently purchased an OCUK custom built system.
SSD running fine and HDD was running games fine but is now taking an age even to load something as simple as counter strike source.

CrystalDiskInfo is reporting the health status as good. Are there any tools i can use to diagnose my issue? nothing seems to be loading from the drive, and when it does, it takes upwards of 30 mins to load excuteables.

Tried running ATTO disc benchmark however after 1 hour i was still getting "Benchmark in progress, please wait...." with no results displaying at all.

crg52 · 14 Aug 2016 at 07:14

Have you checked the drive usage in Task Manager? I recently had a similar problem which was caused by the drive spinning constantly at 100%.

The fix was to disable notifications as per this..

Windows 10 high disk usage 100

Good luck.

Name · 14 Aug 2016 at 11:24

IS there a way to monitor disc usage for a secondary drive?
this is not my OS drive thankfully but a secondary storage drive

I go into task manager but it is only displaying resource monitoring for my Primary SSD.

chkdisc has also come back as 0 bad sectors and 0 faults with drive.

lude1962 · 14 Aug 2016 at 11:46

check event viewer for disk errors

Name · 14 Aug 2016 at 12:07

Update:
For some unexplained reason my Secondary Drive has now appeared in Task Manager after not being there ever before lol. Disk usage is showing as 100% constantly. Interesting how it's showing as Disc 0 and not disk 2? shouldn't my OS Drive be 1 and Secondary drive 2?

lude1962 said:
check event viewer for disk errors

Unsure how to do this, i can get into event manager but not sure how to navigate! - long time out from computers which is why i went for a pre-built to try and dodge some of these issues for which, i cannot seem escape.

lude1962 · 14 Aug 2016 at 15:12

you want windows logs and system, look for disk errors