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.
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.