USB Hdd is extremely slow for last 3 days

ares0027

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TOSHIBA HDWC130EW3J1 STOR.E CANVIO 3.5" 3TB is the hdd. Nothing has changed except that i used to be on Windows 8 Pro, but i formatted my hdd (internal one) and clean installed Win 8.1 Pro.


I noticed the slowness first when i tried my video codec (using K-Lite Mega Codec Pack with player) when i skip the video, doesn't matter how much, the video stops for a few seconds, which wasn't happening before, i thought that something was wrong with the codec and/or player, didn't really care about it. Then i wanted more space on it to backup my steam games, and tried to copy some of the files to my internal but the maximum speed was 200KBps. I tested it and here is the result of it.

HDD did not move an inch, nothing dropped on it, no physical interference, not changed its place or whatsoever. The only difference was upgrade from win 8 to 8.1. I did NOT install any of the motherboard drivers (which are for win 7)


incase it is relevant my pc specs are;
Amd FX-8350 (no oc at all, all stock)
Gigabyte 990xa-ud3
Gskill Ripjaws series 2x4 GB DDr3 1333 ram
(it is not relevant but) Inno 3D GTX560 (%10 oc, to 900 MHz)


do you think that it has something to do with motherboard drivers? Also since it is connected through USB 3 maximum reading speed i have seen is 40 MB, do you think it is normal for usb 3? i havent used usb3 tbh so i am inexperienced.

edit: forgot to add picture

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@scout_03 downloaded both diagnostics tool on the first one (Windows Diagnostic Tool Ver. 1.12
(For IDE/ATA/SATA Hard Drives)) i simply cannot select my harddisk. when i click nothing happens and it tells me to choose a harddisk so it is not working. on the second one (Diagnostic Tool Ver. 2.3
(For SCSI Hard Drives)) i receive an error "ASPI, LoadLibraryEx (wnaspi32) failed!!!"


And something weird happened, i was changing my speaker's position and i had to unplug the adapter of hdd, then replugged it, and it is working as intended since :S

@popatim; thanks i haven't noticed it, there wasnt any usb3 driver on my motherboard dvd and tbh i didnt check the website either.

ares0027

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it wasnt that full yesterday i had 180GB free and checked it on defrag and it said that there is no need.

P.S. I forgot to add but the drive is 4 months old, never deleted something, it got full 1-1,5 months ago. i don't really think it is a defrag issue. are you quite sure about that?
 

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somehow i cannot quote

@scout_03 downloaded both diagnostics tool on the first one (Windows Diagnostic Tool Ver. 1.12
(For IDE/ATA/SATA Hard Drives)) i simply cannot select my harddisk. when i click nothing happens and it tells me to choose a harddisk so it is not working. on the second one (Diagnostic Tool Ver. 2.3
(For SCSI Hard Drives)) i receive an error "ASPI, LoadLibraryEx (wnaspi32) failed!!!"


And something weird happened, i was changing my speaker's position and i had to unplug the adapter of hdd, then replugged it, and it is working as intended since :S

@popatim; thanks i haven't noticed it, there wasnt any usb3 driver on my motherboard dvd and tbh i didnt check the website either.
 
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