Question Computer slow - Puzzled I should change C Drive

[Thomas5589]

Hello. My computer gets slow after several hours of usage.
This is a bit weird but will try to explain.
Everything was fine for 3 years but progressively getting slow. Reached a point where this is so slow that I can't even do a copy and past or open a folder without waiting a few seconds.
First issue was copy from E: drive to C: Drive that was taking like 1 hour with sometimes 50 MB/s andf sometimes 0MB/s .... I checked disk and bought a new one cause it was very old. Things got better on that point.
Then after a few days the cmputer became slow again on almost everything. Open VLC + copy and paste files and I had to wait endlessly for opening a folder or an application.
I did a new windows setup. Everything was fine and fast for few weeks before coming back to slow speed :-(
I did a DDU driver display uninstall and setup again all AMD and CPU drivers. Everything went much much better.
But now it is going slow again :-(
Other things I did :
- Virus scan : nothing.
- Changed thermal paste.
- Check tempratures : I don't know what is normal HW utility provides plenty of things but 35 on mother board and 43 is the max on CPU.

Now I have a few question :
- Should I change my C MMV drive that could be corrupted ? It is an SSD one.
- How can I investigate the caise of that please ?

Configuration :
- ASrock B450 Steel legend
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- DDR4 Corsair 3200 x 2 on slots 2 and 4.
- AMD Radeon RX6600.
- I have one drive (NVME) for OS and 2 Seagate for data.

Any help much appreicated and thanks.

 

[Lutfij]

- I have one drive (NVME) for OS and 2 Seagate for data.
You might want to include the makes and models of your storage drives.

BIOS version for your motherboard? Make and model of your PSU and it's age? What OS are you working with? Make and model of your case and the temps for your hardware when the slowdowns happen? Speaking of temps, how are you cooling the processor?

 

[CountMike]

Hello. My computer gets slow after several hours of usage.
This is a bit weird but will try to explain.
Everything was fine for 3 years but progressively getting slow. Reached a point where this is so slow that I can't even do a copy and past or open a folder without waiting a few seconds.
First issue was copy from E: drive to C: Drive that was taking like 1 hour with sometimes 50 MB/s andf sometimes 0MB/s .... I checked disk and bought a new one cause it was very old. Things got better on that point.
Then after a few days the cmputer became slow again on almost everything. Open VLC + copy and paste files and I had to wait endlessly for opening a folder or an application.
I did a new windows setup. Everything was fine and fast for few weeks before coming back to slow speed :-(
I did a DDU driver display uninstall and setup again all AMD and CPU drivers. Everything went much much better.
But now it is going slow again :-(
Other things I did :
- Virus scan : nothing.
- Changed thermal paste.
- Check tempratures : I don't know what is normal HW utility provides plenty of things but 35 on mother board and 43 is the max on CPU.

Now I have a few question :
- Should I change my C MMV drive that could be corrupted ? It is an SSD one.
- How can I investigate the caise of that please ?

Configuration :
- ASrock B450 Steel legend
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- DDR4 Corsair 3200 x 2 on slots 2 and 4.
- AMD Radeon RX6600.
- I have one drive (NVME) for OS and 2 Seagate for data.

Any help much appreicated and thanks.

To eliminate or confirm problems with disks run disk health utility like Cristal Disk info (Smart tab) and benchmark them with Crystal Disk mark and show pictures here.
How much free space do you have on C: and other disks ? Full or with little free space left it can slow them down considerably. Check file system integrity with CHKDSK command. Make sure Trim function is enabled and run it.
Overly aggressive AV or malware checking can slow disks too.

 

[Thomas5589]

Ok sorry guys, will provide the info below.

-You might want to include the makes and models of your storage drives.
C: Sandisk - 500GB. NVMe
E: + F: one WD Blue 4TB + one Toshiba HDWD240 4TB.
- BIOS version for your motherboard?
P10.11
- PSU : I don't remember the model, any option to get it from a software ? I have to move my pc to check physical model.... it is about 3 years old.
- OS : windows 11 pro X64.
- Checkdisk found no issue
- Drive C 348GB free / F 1.52TB Free / E 1.62TB free
Below the Crystal disk report :


(01) WDC WDS500G2B0C-00PXH0
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Model : WDC WDS500G2B0C-00PXH0
Firmware : 211210WD
Serial Number : ************
Disk Size : 500.1 GB
Interface : NVM Express
Standard : NVM Express 1.4
Transfer Mode : PCIe 3.0 x2 | PCIe 3.0 x4
Power On Hours : 5114 hours
Power On Count : 2056 count
Host Reads : 38841 GB
Host Writes : 37762 GB
Temperature : 38 C (100 F)
Health Status : Good (96 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T., TRIM, VolatileWriteCache
Drive Letter : C:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 000000000000 Critical Warning
02 000000000137 Composite Temperature
03 000000000064 Available Spare
04 00000000000A Available Spare Threshold
05 000000000004 Percentage Used
06 000004DAEDA7 Data Units Read
07 000004B8690C Data Units Written
08 000049CE4A64 Host Read Commands
09 00003804845B Host Write Commands
0A 000000000D6D Controller Busy Time
0B 000000000808 Power Cycles
0C 0000000013FA Power On Hours
0D 000000000038 Unsafe Shutdowns
0E 000000000000 Media and Data Integrity Errors
0F 000000000001 Number of Error Information Log Entries





----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(02) WDC WD40EZAZ-22SF3B0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Model : WDC WD40EZAZ-22SF3B0
Firmware : 80.00A80
Serial Number : ***************
Disk Size : 4000.7 GB (8.4/137.4/4000.7/4000.7)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 7814037168
Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-3
Minor Version : ACS-3 Revision 5
Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 1247 hours
Power On Count : 255 count
Temperature : 33 C (91 F)
Health Status : Good
Features : S.M.A.R.T., NCQ, TRIM, GPL
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : E:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 200 200 _51 000000000000 Read Error Rate
03 211 207 _21 000000000968 Spin-Up Time
04 100 100 __0 000000000230 Start/Stop Count
05 200 200 140 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 200 200 __0 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
09 _99 _99 __0 0000000004DF Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 __0 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0B 100 100 __0 000000000000 Recalibration Retries
0C 100 100 __0 0000000000FF Power Cycle Count
C0 200 200 __0 000000000009 Power-off Retract Count
C1 200 200 __0 000000000560 Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 114 107 __0 000000000021 Temperature
C4 200 200 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 200 200 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 253 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 000000000000 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 100 253 __0 000000000000 Write Error Rate



----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(03) TOSHIBA HDWD240
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Model : TOSHIBA HDWD240
Firmware : KQ000A
Serial Number : ************
Disk Size : 4000.7 GB (8.4/137.4/4000.7/4000.7)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 7814037168
Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-3
Minor Version : ACS-3 Revision 5
Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 5478 hours
Power On Count : 2376 count
Temperature : 34 C (93 F)
Health Status : Good
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ, GPL
APM Level : 0080h [ON]
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : F:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 100 100 _50 000000000000 Read Error Rate
02 100 100 _50 000000000000 Throughput Performance
03 100 100 __1 0000000015DD Spin-Up Time
04 100 100 __0 000000000E1D Start/Stop Count
05 100 100 _50 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 100 100 _50 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 100 100 _50 000000000000 Seek Time Performance
09 _87 _87 __0 000000001566 Power-On Hours
0A 172 100 _30 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0C 100 100 __0 000000000948 Power Cycle Count
BF 100 100 __0 00000000000C G-Sense Error Rate
C0 100 100 __0 0000000000D7 Power-off Retract Count
C1 _94 _94 __0 00000000FA34 Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 100 100 __0 0027000E0022 Temperature
C4 100 100 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 100 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 253 __0 000000000000 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
DC 100 100 __0 000000000000 Disk Shift
DE _95 _95 __0 000000000856 Loaded Hours
DF 100 100 __0 000000000000 Load/Unload Retry Count
E0 100 100 __0 000000000000 Load Friction
E2 100 100 __0 000000000338 Load 'In'-time
F0 100 100 __1 000000000000 Head Flying Hours