Hello,
I purchased a new Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB yesterday and connected it to my system. I cloned my old hard drive and booted from the new SSHD.
It was cool at first. I did 3 reboots during the first 24 hours so that the SSHD caches the OS on the flash memory and already noticed decreased boot times.
Then some problems occured, and I'm not sure if it's the new SSHD combined with my somewhat-old system to blame.
And my questions are...
Here's my system info:
I hope you'll excuse my long post. Any response appreciated!
I purchased a new Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB yesterday and connected it to my system. I cloned my old hard drive and booted from the new SSHD.
It was cool at first. I did 3 reboots during the first 24 hours so that the SSHD caches the OS on the flash memory and already noticed decreased boot times.
Then some problems occured, and I'm not sure if it's the new SSHD combined with my somewhat-old system to blame.
First of all, everything in Chrome lagged for 4-5 seconds. Every new website I was opening, it needed 4-5 seconds to start loading, which wasn't happening with my old HDD drive. This is the least important thing though, and it even may not have to do with the drive.
Another weird thing is that any antivirus scan won't start scanning. It just sticks to 0% for an hour or more. I guess this would have to do with flash caching of the SSHD, right? I tried with Avast and Malwarebytes. Both stuck at 0%.
What I'm almost sure is because of the new drive is that my external Seagate Expansion USB drive died yesterday. I don't know if this is because of the motherboard not being able to handle the SSHD, or because of changed power needs by the PSU. I haven't understood yet what has happened. The external HDD was less than 2 years old and was working fine until yesterday. What is even weirder is that it doesn't do any click sounds and seems to work fine from what I can hear. Nevertheless, Windows can't open it and a couple of disk recovery apps told me it's a bad disk.
To add more, when I plug my bad disk into the USB slot, my Internet connection suddenly stops (only in this computer though, has nothing to do with the router). It also prevents Disk Management to populate the disks (it's stuck at "Connecting to virtual drive") and any disk-related software to open. The only place I can see my external HDD without hanging is the Device Manager. The only way to access the disk on disk-related software (such as Mini Tool Power Data Recovery) is to open the program (which gets stuck at loading screen), unplug the USB disk, then the program de-hangs and detects the disk, then I plug the USB disk again and use the program. I may have even made things worse with that, I suppose.
And my questions are...
could the new SSHD be to blame?
Is there anything I can do to make Windows read the (even destroyed) external HDD without having disk-related apps hanging?
And most importantly, should I keep using the SSHD or is it possible it will destroy more hardware? I now switched back to my old HDD - I'm going to do a Windows 8.1 clean install on the new SSHD tomorrow.
Here's my system info:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2-B3 (rev1.0)
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40 GHz
RAM: Kingston HyperX Black Series 16 GB DDR3
I hope you'll excuse my long post. Any response appreciated!