2TB SSHD might be under performing?

link941

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So ran a crystaldiskmark test: https://puu.sh/xEktY/bbdb39c96c.png and I'm wondering if this looks good or not. Because even though this SSHD is new and hardly has anything installed it feels incredibly slow. When it's downloading anything it feels like the whole computer was just dipped in molasses. Things like opening any kind of file takes a few seconds (for example: If I open an image, the window starts not responding for a few seconds then the photo will appear). And also my disk is at a perpetual state of being at 100% due to "svchost.exe (netsvcs)" which was also a problem with my previous hard drive, two HDDs RAIDed together.

I returned it to the seller I bought it from through newegg and they ran diagnostics and write tests and said it was fine and any issues I have are purely software related. So now I'm not sure what to do since apparently my "software" issue just happens to be every software on the drive and isn't the drive's fault. My old dying HDDs feels faster than this new SSHD. How do I fix or isolate the issue and see if I can try and exchange it again?
 
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I had a 2TB SSHD, which was 'dying' on me. It still goes, but whenever I mentioned the amount of unrecoverable bad sectors, people were shocked.
I now have a 500gb SSD and a 2TB HDD. You can go for a mix like I did, and they don't need to be as big of a capacity.
Is this after a clean Windows setup? Did you wait for a while for all the updates for Windows to run? SSHD drives are not very fast, they do get faster as the cache builds up with programs and files you use, but you are a lot better off just getting a solid state drive not a hybrid.
 

link941

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Yes it was after a clean windows setup. I've had it for a few days and its been running for most of them. I think it might be getting a bit faster now. It really shits the bed when I'm installing something though. Seems fine on idle or without downloading anything. And SSD over a terabyte seemed a little out of my price range since I needed space more than performance. I'm trying out the hybrid rather than a normal HDD.
 

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I had a 2TB SSHD, which was 'dying' on me. It still goes, but whenever I mentioned the amount of unrecoverable bad sectors, people were shocked.
I now have a 500gb SSD and a 2TB HDD. You can go for a mix like I did, and they don't need to be as big of a capacity.
 
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