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My 1.4 TB WD Blue hard drive, a 5400 RPM model, has become incredibly sluggish lately. It's been performing poorly for the past 15 months.
The hard drive consistently shows 100% disk utilization. I've tried various troubleshooting steps, yet the issue persists. Read and write speeds are abysmal, barely exceeding 7 MB/s.
I've defragmented the drive, reducing fragmentation from roughly 30% to zero. I also ran chkdsk /f /r /x, a process that took about 18-20 hours. CrystalDiskInfo now reports zero bad sectors.
The drive is 13 years old and has accumulated approximately 4,348 hours of use. The slowdown is extreme; Windows often freezes during shutdown, taking hours. Boot times are around 7-8 minutes. It's connected via a SATA III interface, and I haven't noticed any unusual noises. The SATA mode is Intel RST Premium. The file system is NTFS.
Even with a download speed of 7-8 MB/s, my actual transfer rates top out around 2.5 MB/s due to the hard drive's limitations. File operations, like deleting or moving files, are excruciatingly slow. The drive is about 45% full, leaving plenty of free space. CrystalDiskMark is unusable because the disk is always at 100% capacity. I've explored countless YouTube tutorials offering solutions for 100% disk usage, to no avail. I've disabled numerous startup programs and scheduled tasks, yet the problem remains. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
The hard drive consistently shows 100% disk utilization. I've tried various troubleshooting steps, yet the issue persists. Read and write speeds are abysmal, barely exceeding 7 MB/s.
I've defragmented the drive, reducing fragmentation from roughly 30% to zero. I also ran chkdsk /f /r /x, a process that took about 18-20 hours. CrystalDiskInfo now reports zero bad sectors.
The drive is 13 years old and has accumulated approximately 4,348 hours of use. The slowdown is extreme; Windows often freezes during shutdown, taking hours. Boot times are around 7-8 minutes. It's connected via a SATA III interface, and I haven't noticed any unusual noises. The SATA mode is Intel RST Premium. The file system is NTFS.
Even with a download speed of 7-8 MB/s, my actual transfer rates top out around 2.5 MB/s due to the hard drive's limitations. File operations, like deleting or moving files, are excruciatingly slow. The drive is about 45% full, leaving plenty of free space. CrystalDiskMark is unusable because the disk is always at 100% capacity. I've explored countless YouTube tutorials offering solutions for 100% disk usage, to no avail. I've disabled numerous startup programs and scheduled tasks, yet the problem remains. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
