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Games running slow on new hard drive?

heronymousrex

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Oct 26, 2014
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I installed all my games on my ssd to begin with and recently transitioned them all to a 1tb western digital blue 7200 rpm 64mb cache internal hdd to save space. Games are running extremely laggy and slow, even basic ones unless I turn the settings down to low, and I have a gaming pc that handled them perfectly on high settings when they were on the ssd. Any ideas what could be wrong?

 
Solution
What games specifically? Some games show huge performance increases with SSD's while other do not matter at all. What does CrystalDiskInfo show about the drive?