New hard drive performance issues after cloning

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Petsku333

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I bought a new Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm hard drive to where I cloned about 400 gigabytes of stuff from my old Samsung hard drive. Everything works fine, windows boots up and so on. Then I went on Steam and started downloading a game and it constantly kept saying "Busy writing to disk" which has never happened to me on the Samsung drive. Also when I benchmark the old Samsung drive on HD Tune Pro the read graph is stable and kind of resembles a heartbeat and never goes to 0 mb/s on the read. But now with the Seagate it goes all over the place and even hits 0 mb/s what explains the problems with Steam downloading. So what's the problem here and what should I do?
 
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D_Know_WD
Hi there Petsku333,

Most probably this is caused by bad sectors on the drive. I would advise you to test the drive with a brand specific testing tool. If the results show that there is something wrong, you should RMA it.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
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thor220

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It's means there are some serious issues with the drive. RMA it. In the future make sure to test the drive before using it in the system.
 
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Hi there Petsku333,

Most probably this is caused by bad sectors on the drive. I would advise you to test the drive with a brand specific testing tool. If the results show that there is something wrong, you should RMA it.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
 
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thor220

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I would like to add a bit to this. Let's say that the drive passes all the tests but the zero write issues persist, it should still be returned. Smart tests are good but they don't cover every possible issue.
 
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Petsku333

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I think the problem has gone away now. I did CHKDSK and been using the computer normally. Benchmark doesn't go to 0mb/s altho the graph is different to my old hard drive but maybe that's normal. Downloads aren't also disrupted by "Busy writing to disk". Maybe I was being just a bit too hesitant and my hardware or windows needed some time to adjust to the change? Anyway thanks for your help guys :)!
 
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There's only two possible scenarios here. The first is that the hard drive have allot of bad sectors and finally found them all. The second is a connection issue, a.k.a bad cable. You should still run a test as D_Know_WD suggested. In addition, if these issues come back, changing the cable and/or port it's connected to on the motherboard could be a solution.
 
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Petsku333

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I ran all of the tests on Seagates SeaTools software and it passed them all so I think I'm good.

 
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It's good then that you don't have to get a replacement. It's very worrying when an issue like what you have happens. Again, if the issue pops up again, it could be the cable or port. I can't say that I've ever had a drive that had issues like you had recover like that unless it was the cable or port. Read errors like that usually signal a bad drive.
 
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SeaTools is a pass-or-fail diagnostic. It is essentially useless when it comes to identifying problems with bad sectors. The drive could have 2000 reallocated sectors but SeaTools will never tell you. I prefer a tool such as CrystalDiskInfo or HD Sentinel.
 
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CrystalDiskInfo is the best I've used. Has everything you need without an install. Perfect for flash drives.
 
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