Speedy lappy now sub-slug speed after "faster" hard drive replacement

[Hayabusa Rider]

I have an Acer I7 a few years old. The drive was getting full so I ordered a Firecuda 2tb model and a "toaster" style dual slot hardware cloner. That worked fine but I had this large unallocated space where I wanted one "drive" and not two partitions. Got software to move and merge partitions and now it all looks fine.

Slow as... you know. Task Manger shows 100% drive use so I turned indexing off. 100% drive use. Websites time out when Chrome or other browser opened. Operations which took seconds are half a minute to several. Forget multimedia, as it takes many seconds to just open an image file, up to a minute.

No crashes, no errors, I can't find anything. I really really don't want to wipe the whole drive if I can help it.

Thoughts?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Honestly, it just sounds defective. Replace it with a WD Black 2.5" , or go 1TB SSD.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It sounds wonky to me too. Any SMART errors reported?

If it were an SSD i'd guess there was an alignment problem due to the clone, but I'm not sure if that's a thing for hdds. Don't think it is, anyway.

What type of drive did it replace? Looking at the reviews, I don't really think the Firecuda counts as "fast."

 

[mxnerd]

Could be Windows doing update in the background or something else. Start Task Manager, Performance, open Resource Monitor, check CPU & Disk, see what's running in the background.

By the way, you should have replaced the old drive with SSD. Windows 10 background update sucks big time if your system disk is not SSD.

Buy a 2.5" USB enclosure for Firecuda 2tb and use it as an external data drive and move your data onto it. If your laptop is used as desktop replacement, you should be able to just plugin the drive in that dual slot duplicator and no need for a USB enclosure.

Also take a look at Event Viewer, Custom Views, Administrative Events (under Control Panel, Administrative Tools)

 

[IntelUser2000]

Could be Windows doing update in the background or something else. Start Task Manager, Performance, open Resource Monitor, check CPU & Disk, see what's running in the background.

Maybe this. Sometimes windows does weird things by using resources for no reason.

Why not give it a day or so and see if it improves? With hard drives such hardware changes take quite a bit for the system to get ready.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Seatools bootable to verify drive health.

If it passes, and windows doesn't settle down, reload.

 

[Shmee]

Could be DOA, or just slow. I would recommend an SSD in all cases for a laptop.

 

[BurnItDwn]

DOH this is over a month old ... sorry ignore it

 

[VirtualLarry]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820331115

 

[UsandThem]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820331115

I personally would spend the extra $13 and get the the Crucial MX500 (5 year warranty).

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