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HDD speed drop on copy

psygnosis

Member
Hi all,
My father notebook has a very strange issue that I've notice only on these days.
he had an asus x53br with E450 APU, ok it's not a good notebook but it was strange that he couldn't open an mp4 or wait 1 or 2 even 3 seconds to open the right click menu on desktop.
So I clean up his pc and install Windows 10.
A compleate disaster, w10 was incredibly slow at loading, even start menu was slow.
After a complete day I found out that the problem was the APU. The lastest legacy driver are full of bugs and only an old beta works.
Why I've telling you this? because also if I solve the mp4 problem the pc is always slow.
So when try to copy some catalyst driver on the 2nd partition I've notice that the speed goes from 3 mb/s (max 13 if I remember well) to 0 mb/s then start again from 13 to 0.
Crystal disk info tells me that the hdd is in good health. it's a western digital 320gb 5200rpm.

Could it be that the hdd is going to die?
could it be the hell temperature that I have in my house?
could it be a software issue? maybe w8.1 (the actual os), or w10 can't communicate well with chipset and all the system is slow? 'cause i've also installed w7 but I clean it after 1 hour 'cause I thought that was really too old now to be used, but the system was a bit more reactive without drivers.

I hope you could give me some advice before I buy a new hdd that I prefer to not buy 🙁

(oh that netbook has 6gb of ram)

thank you in advance
 
Use something like CrystalDiskInfo and see what the SMART status of the HD is.
I am betting you will see errors, and it would be time to get a new HD (or SSD), and I hope you have backups.
 
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