Hard drive too slow for games

[owismael31]

I have windows 10 on my HDD but it's slow when it comes to boot time and loading big games (it also causes PUBG and Fortnite to stutter in game as it suddenly jumps to 100% usage randomly)
It also is loud when it jumps to 100% usage.
I'm thinking about 2 solutions :
1st one is to buy a newer WD caviar blue (this current hdd is kinda old)
2nd one is to buy a 250 gb SSD and put windows and some games on it and AAA games on my current HDD since SSD storage is limited.
If i buy the SSD, and play a game on my HDD, would the stuttering, 100% usage spikes and sound be gone because it's not running windows anymore and be a bit faster for games ?

 

[geofelt]

The results of the borrowed HDD look to be in the same range as yours.

Does the borrowed HDD show similar results when tested on his PC?

How about testing your HHD on his pc?

FWIW, a ssd will text 10x faster in sequential and 10x lower random response times.

If you care about performance, try to find a way to put all of your active stuff on a ssd.
A slow hard drive will be ok for backups and bulk storage. In your case with a suspect drive perhaps not.

 

[owismael31]

The results of the borrowed HDD look to be in the same range as yours.

Does the borrowed HDD show similar results when tested on his PC?

How about testing your HHD on his pc?

FWIW, a ssd will text 10x faster in sequential and 10x lower random response times.

If you care about performance, try to find a way to put all of your active stuff on a ssd.
A slow hard drive will be ok for backups and bulk storage. In your case with a suspect drive perhaps not.

those aren't the results of the borrowed HDD, they're the results of my HDD without running windows.
The borrowed HDD shows 60mb/s write 60mb/s read and ranges from 0.7 mb/s to 1.1 mb/s for 4kb files (same thing that my friend gets), so the problem isn't my pc

 

[ElectrO_90]

I'm wondering if something dodgy has been happening with Windows - now you have a clone - you could in theory format, reinstall windows and some other basic software and run the test again.

Anyway, is there a reason why you can't run the SSD and HDD? You seem to want to pick between the 2, and I am unsure why.

 

[owismael31]

I'm wondering if something dodgy has been happening with Windows - now you have a clone - you could in theory format, reinstall windows and some other basic software and run the test again.

Anyway, is there a reason why you can't run the SSD and HDD? You seem to want to pick between the 2, and I am unsure why.

I did format my HDD and benchmarked it with 100% free space, it did good but when i copied a 30 gb folder into it and then ran the benchmark again, the read speed was the same but the write speed was again 15mb/s

 

[geofelt]

Have you checked the drive properties as to write cacheing enabled?

 

[owismael31]

Have you checked the drive properties as to write cacheing enabled?

Yes i did, it is enabled
[update] :
I formatted the HDD and the heavy noise is now gone, i benchmarked when it was 100% free space and it got good results (60mb/s write vs old 15mb/s) but after i copied a 34 gb folder into it, i did the benchmarks again and got 15mb/s write speed again...