Agonizingly slow hard drive - is it set up wrong?

Jomi B

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I recently had to replace my HDD, and I happened to have a Western Digital WD Green WD20EARS 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive on hand so I just used that.

The problem is, the drive is so friggin' slow. I don't mean a small delay that I'm being fussy about, rather I mean everything taking 3-4 times longer (or more) than my old HDD, and sometimes it's so slow that it takes several seconds to respond (like loading a right click menu, or accessing a folder).

This is apparently an "Advanced Format" drive, so is there something I should be doing about that to make this thing run properly, or is this just how the HDD is?

I'm running Windows 7 Home Edition on it.
 

Jomi B

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But are they that slow? I had been using a SeaGate Barracude 400GB 7200RPM previously and I never imagined the difference would be so dramatic with this new one. I though it must have something wrong with it because it's not even usable as a primary. Sooo slow.
 

Adam Ebel

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There are generally very few hardware issues that would cause a hard drive to be slow, generally, if anything, it's a software issue. I could suggest the typical things, run a defrag, clean up your directories, but I suspect your just getting used to what is naturally a slower drive.
 

Jomi B

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This things just too slow for me so I'm going to pick up a different HDD. Apparently the Green series aren't very good, sacrificing performance to be "green", so I'll keep that as a secondary storage drive.

I'm going to get a Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive. Thanks everyone for your help!
 

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