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TheKillerc0w

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I am having issues with loading times, games are pretty much unplayable, Norton antivirus takes 5 minutes to start. I recently had a HDD failure and got a replacement, this happened when I installed the new Hard Drive.
Hardware:
Seagate Barracuda 3tb
MSI Nvidia gtx 960
8gigs of DDR3 RAM
AMD Athlon x4 750k at 3.4ghz

Any help would be appreciated
 
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SuperSoph_WD
This seems rather unfortunate, TheKillerc0w!
I'd suggest you test this replacement HDD using the manufacturer's brand-specific diagnostic tool. It will help you determine the health and SMART status of the drive. If you are unable to find it on their official website, you can refer to some third-party testing tool suggestions from the community.

If the issue persists, backup your data elsewhere ASAP and contact the manufacturer's customer support again to let them know about this.

Best of luck!
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Welcome to the TH community, TheKillerc0w!

I'd recommend you to use your HDD manufacturer's diagnostic tool in order to determine the health and SMART status of your HDD. However, make sure you backup any important data that you might have on it beforehand. I'd also suggest you try connecting the HDD to a different SATA port on the motherboard use a different SATA cable as well. If you have access to another PC, you might also want to give the hard drive a go there as well and see how it will perform.

Keep me posted! :) Hope these help.
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TheKillerc0w

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So, as an update I am still having the issue. I got a replacement from seagate and it was fine for about a month until it became extremely slow... about 5-7 MB/s on transfer speeds, I have tried switching sata cables and sata ports. I think the issue is the mother board, what do you guys think?
 
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Hey there again, TheKillerc0w!

This seems pretty unfortunate! :( I'd recommend you to check the motherboard manufacturer's website and make sure you have the latest SATA controller & Chipset drivers for your model. Outdated drivers (or Windows Updates drivers) could potentially cause such performance drops.
While on the mobo's website, I'd also suggest you check if you have the latest BIOS version (firmware). In case you don't, follow the instructions from the motherboard manual precisely and take care of the update.
I'd still recommend you check the HDD on another PC as well. This way you'd be able to determine the source of the issue.

Let me know how it goes! :)
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TheKillerc0w

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I have checked, I have the latest firmware, I tried the hdd as an external drive on a laptop(I don't have another desktop to check it on atm) it is about the same speed... I find that it is about 50 MB/s when I first restart my desktop and slowly declines to about 12 MB/s after around 5 minutes of being on...
 
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This seems rather unfortunate, TheKillerc0w!
I'd suggest you test this replacement HDD using the manufacturer's brand-specific diagnostic tool. It will help you determine the health and SMART status of the drive. If you are unable to find it on their official website, you can refer to some third-party testing tool suggestions from the community.

If the issue persists, backup your data elsewhere ASAP and contact the manufacturer's customer support again to let them know about this.

Best of luck!
SuperSoph_WD
 
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