I have a Western Digital Black data drive that I've been using for 4 years or so, internal SATA II I believe (possibly 3, unsure to be honest)........1.5TB, used as a data drive. It recently began to show RED in Windows, indicating it was getting full. With about 20gb to spare I began to move stuff off it. Problem: Now it's slow as molasses.
I understand a drive needs some headroom to operate, so I deleted a bunch of stuff. The deletion took forever. As in overnight, into the next morning. The drive sounds a little off, but nothing physical happened to it. I removed it from the internal bay, plugged it into a USB 3.0 dock I own......and its still pig slow. Even trying to call up a directory (Click open on a folder) will cause my entire computer to pause for a moment, then pause again..its like the drive is running at pre-IDE speeds, endlessly playing catchup to whatever I am asking it to do. I've managed to get 800 gigs off the thing......and it's still pig slow.
Sometimes it is transferring at 4.5mbps, other times at 20mbps if the files are smaller...but nowhere near where it used to.
HDTune wouldn't even run properly....Western Digital Lifeguard tools errors out on my computer.
This one is a head-scratcher for me, and I'm fine zapping the drive once I've moved a few more things off it...slowly.......but the "WHY?" is stumping me. Thoughts?
Things I have considered:
I need to slap a jumper on the thing and try to reset it or force it into a master/slave mode directly.....err...if it lets me do that.......
It's been cursed
....???
If you have an opinion, feel free to share. Thanks!
I understand a drive needs some headroom to operate, so I deleted a bunch of stuff. The deletion took forever. As in overnight, into the next morning. The drive sounds a little off, but nothing physical happened to it. I removed it from the internal bay, plugged it into a USB 3.0 dock I own......and its still pig slow. Even trying to call up a directory (Click open on a folder) will cause my entire computer to pause for a moment, then pause again..its like the drive is running at pre-IDE speeds, endlessly playing catchup to whatever I am asking it to do. I've managed to get 800 gigs off the thing......and it's still pig slow.
Sometimes it is transferring at 4.5mbps, other times at 20mbps if the files are smaller...but nowhere near where it used to.
HDTune wouldn't even run properly....Western Digital Lifeguard tools errors out on my computer.
This one is a head-scratcher for me, and I'm fine zapping the drive once I've moved a few more things off it...slowly.......but the "WHY?" is stumping me. Thoughts?
Things I have considered:
I need to slap a jumper on the thing and try to reset it or force it into a master/slave mode directly.....err...if it lets me do that.......
It's been cursed
....???
If you have an opinion, feel free to share. Thanks!