Slow HDD - no idea why

crome2314

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Hi community,
I setup my pc to work like a beast, as you can see in my following link:

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/5364798

I am overall quite happy with what my system is doing but i seriously can't get my HDD to work properly.
I did many tests, used Atto disk and ASSD benchmark to confirm speeds, even samsung magician and they all get the same results.

Now, my HDD should be performing at about 200 MB/s read and something like 0.8- 1.0 mb/s random 4k.

You can see my full Hardware and OS version on that link as well.

I'd be glad if you have a few tips on how to fix that issue.
Thanks in advance
 

bailojustin

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There is no issue. Your drive is performing as expected, even compared against benchmarks against all the other same drives, it is the same if not a little better.

random 4k read/write is always slower.


http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Toshiba-P300-1TB/Rating/3589

Looks like it may have overheated before or is overheating?

Also the spin up time is a pretty weird value.

(ID) Attribute Now Worst Value
(01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1
(02) Throughput performance 100 100 0
(03) Spinup time 127 127 12896960688
(04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1208
(05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0
(07) Seek error rate 100 100 0
(08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0
(09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6108
(0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0
(0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1176
(C0) Power-off retract count 92 92 10281
(C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 10281
(C2) HDA temperature 206 206 184684707869
(C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0
(C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0
(C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0
(C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
 

bailojustin

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I would make sure your PSU is strong enough to supply everything with the overclocks. That spinup time and the errors accrued since your first picture worries me.
 

crome2314

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I have an XFX Pro 650 W 80+ Bronze PSU.

It's a bit older than the rest of my parts, but i never thought it wouldn't be enough, to be honest.

The Shizuku screen was from just 5 minutes ago,
the older benchmark was a month ago.

Edit:
I just remembered that i used HD Tune Pro to short stroke the HDD. It dropped speeds at about 300 GB so i used that as first partition.

Also, i don't really know what SMART is telling me with each line.

Edit 2:
https://i.imgur.com/SldHGX8.png