WD Caviar Green Slowdown?

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celestine8

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Hi All,
Recently i have been experiencing slowdown when accessing my caviar green 2TB drive (WD20EZRX). I used crystal disk to view for SMART errors but there were none. I also tried using WD's own diagnosis tool, wd data life guard to check (extended test) and it says "pass". My WD 2TB is used a secondary storage drive while i boot my os from a ssd. The read and write time is still as fast as before, just that for some odd reason, when you try to access it ie when double cliking into the drive, it's significantly slower to load the list of files and folders (in windows 7 64 bit). Something to add on is that recently i have added a lot of data to it, it's left with 200GB/1810GB. I tried doing CHK DISK but for some reason it "cancels" off by itself halfway by saying unable to access disk. Could this be the problem? Should i be concerned and start backing up my drive? Expert advice on this matter is very much appreciated!:)

PS: This is a newly bought drive, about 1 month++ old.
CPU: I7-3770K
RAM: CORSAIR CML8GX3M2A1600C9 (4GB 1600MHz x 2)
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77 M
GPU: SAPPHIRE AMD RADEON HD 7870XT
PSU: Corsair Gaming Series 700WATT
Casing: Corsair Carbide 400R
CPU Heatsink: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 evo
HDD: INTEL SSD 520S 240GB
 
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hang-the-9
Initial access for those drives is a tad slow, they spin down very fast to save energy. I have one in my system and it does take a few beats before I can access it when the PC turns on and I go to it, or even if it's not been accessed for a bit. I ended up with my Green drive because it came inside a very cheap 2TB external drive that sold for a lot less than any of the other 2TB internal drives available, otherwise I would have gotten a WB Black or a Samsung Spinpoint which I use as my other drives. The Green is also a 5400 RPM drive, most other desktop drives are 7200 so just there you are looking at a slower seeming drive.

I could not say why the check disk would cancel itself, it does not sound like a good thing though, try...
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Initial access for those drives is a tad slow, they spin down very fast to save energy. I have one in my system and it does take a few beats before I can access it when the PC turns on and I go to it, or even if it's not been accessed for a bit. I ended up with my Green drive because it came inside a very cheap 2TB external drive that sold for a lot less than any of the other 2TB internal drives available, otherwise I would have gotten a WB Black or a Samsung Spinpoint which I use as my other drives. The Green is also a 5400 RPM drive, most other desktop drives are 7200 so just there you are looking at a slower seeming drive.

I could not say why the check disk would cancel itself, it does not sound like a good thing though, try doing a defrag on the drive then a check disk.
 
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celestine8

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HI hang-the-9,
Thanks for the reply. Yeah i'm experiencing the same thing and bought the caviar green based on the same reason as you haha...well, i noticed chkdsk does complete very quicly if i do not fix bad sector. when i enabled automatically fix bad sector, my ram usage immediately shoots up to 97% (8GB)... and it does run but takes hours to run now...i could defrag and access all the files at the specifications speed without any issue. i manage to improved the situation by placing all the files in one folder, eg from X: --> Xfolder (where it contains all the files and folders). Thanks again for your advice:)
 
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