Hard Drive Too Slow

Devouringbowl57 · Apr 19, 2016

Hello, I've had my rig for a bit over a year, and it's been working fairly well. I'm using a Seagate Barracuda 2tb drive. In the last two or more weeks though my hard drive has been super slow. I didn't notice it as much while I was playing Payday 2, but as soon as I started playing bf4 it was unplayable, and I mean that there was a good three seconds of frozen frames. Task Manager says my hard drive is a 100% utilization, and I have notice launching any other applications is slow as well. My only theory is that a Windows update may have screwed something up, but I doubt it. Currently, I have re-optimized the drive, but I don't know what else to do. Does anybody have a solution or theory? Thanks

Devouringbowl57 · Apr 19, 2016

It does actually occur to me that this could be a RAM leak, which has happened in the past.

techgeek · Apr 19, 2016

I would download SeaTools from Seagate and run the tests to be sure your HDD is OK. Best to find out if something is wrong now while you still have a chance to get your data off of it.

SuperSoph_WD · Apr 19, 2016

Hey there, Devouringbowl57!

I'd second what @techgeek mentioned and advise you to test the HDD's health and SMART status using its brand-specific manufacturer's diagnostic tool. Make sure you run the short and the long tests and take a look at the SMART attributes. Another thing you should try is swapping the SATA cable connecting the HDD in your rig and even try plugging it to a different SATA port on the mobo. Hopefully, it's just a inefficient power connection and not a failing drive.

Keep us posted with the results & troubleshooting.
Good luck!

SuperSoph_WD

Devouringbowl57 · Apr 19, 2016

Turns out it was a RAM leak (the second one actually) I just uninstalled the Killer network drivers, and reinstalled them, and it's working fine again. I don't, however, know how this keeps on happening.

techgeek · Apr 19, 2016

Killer Networks, worst drivers ever. It is a complete mystery to me why anyone thought it was a good idea to mess so extensively with something that is a fairly simple driver. Give me a solid Intel ethernet controller any day.

Killers claims of lower pings through driver QoS settings are sketchy at best. Even if they do work as advertised, the NIC is rarely the device with the public IP which means if the router between the Killer NIC and the internet isn't set up for QoS traffic prioritization, then it doesn't matter what the Killer driver is doing.

Devouringbowl57 · Apr 20, 2016

I'd have to agree with you, and I think they are just added on motherboards for an extra "feature". I just don't understand why this happens every six months or so.

techgeek · Apr 20, 2016

It's hard to say why you've had this twice with the same driver. That is unless Windows Update updated the driver on it's own recently.

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