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WD Caviar Black HDD not performing right
Hi i had a thread about this before but never seemed to identify the problem.
Basically i had a WDC 750GB drive that started failing and got it replaced by an identical one. the symptoms were it getting noisy and slower.
Anyway the new drive that came was tested fine by several programs but it had symptoms pretty much the same as my failing drive.
Ive had 3 replacements of the same drive and they are all the same, noisy and slow under load, specially straight after logon. (There is no bloatware or anything stupid running at startup only speedfan and Antivirus)
I found this thread here New WD Caviar Black 1TB poor performance? [Solved] - Hard Drives - Storage
I downloaded HDtune and ran the benchmark and my results are almost identical with a really low minimum transfer rate (1.6MB/s) which is attached.
They were talking about installing Intel storage drivers but im a little confused with this as my build is AMD and the downloads section of my motherboard doesnt provide any Sata drivers that i can see.
Any advice here please?
Thanks