Hey'all
So... I have a new (2 months old) Seagate Exos X20 HDD. Lately I having more and more trouble with it.
When gaming, and it needs to load heavily (e.g. in Darktide), the drive sometimes goes up to 100% activity, but the read and write speeds are 0 KB/s. The whole HDD becomes unresponsive, and although the game does not always freeze (sometimes it does), but the game keeps disconnecting me as I'm unable to load.
This unresponsiveness can happen even when in File explorer when I try to open a bunch of files/folders. Not everytime, but occasionally. And then even the File Explorer window freezes for 15-20 seconds. 100% usage, 0KB/s read-write speeds.
I did a CHKDSK for 28 effing hours, it found no bad sectors. https://pastebin.com/zKZtz1gy
I did defragmentation, did not help.
I downloaded Seagates official SeaTools app, the fast scan did not found any errors, but the extended scan crashed, and it couldn't finish. The app reports back false stats anyway, as it says 20TB free space available, although it should be 16.9 TB.
I ran CrystalDisk, here are the results (based on the HDD's SMART, I guess?): https://puu.sh/Jvl3I/76be2cf7e7.jpg
Currently running HDDScan...
Some videos:
Task Manager:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zluiAQrUKnc
During gaming:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syT4WYlI-vI
Is this hardware related? Is it Win10 related? A firmware issue (I found no newer firmwares)? Or what?
When I first installed this HDD, 2 months ago, everything was fine. In fact, even 2 weeks ago it was pretty much fine. But now, it's a mess...
When I'm using it for basic copy-paste stuff, it's still fine. But it cannot handle heavy loads for some reason. Even my 10 year old Toshiba can, without freezing... Maybe it's an indexing error? Prior to this, I bought 2 separate WD HDDs, and both of them was faulty right out of the box. I cannot belive that I yet again got a faulty HDD even from a different brand... Help!!
PC:
MSI Z170a Gaming M3
i7 6700K 4.4Ghz
RTX 2060 Super
32GB RAM
4 HDDs & 2 SSDs
PSU is either 650 or 750W
Thank you!
So... I have a new (2 months old) Seagate Exos X20 HDD. Lately I having more and more trouble with it.
When gaming, and it needs to load heavily (e.g. in Darktide), the drive sometimes goes up to 100% activity, but the read and write speeds are 0 KB/s. The whole HDD becomes unresponsive, and although the game does not always freeze (sometimes it does), but the game keeps disconnecting me as I'm unable to load.
This unresponsiveness can happen even when in File explorer when I try to open a bunch of files/folders. Not everytime, but occasionally. And then even the File Explorer window freezes for 15-20 seconds. 100% usage, 0KB/s read-write speeds.
I did a CHKDSK for 28 effing hours, it found no bad sectors. https://pastebin.com/zKZtz1gy
I did defragmentation, did not help.
I downloaded Seagates official SeaTools app, the fast scan did not found any errors, but the extended scan crashed, and it couldn't finish. The app reports back false stats anyway, as it says 20TB free space available, although it should be 16.9 TB.
I ran CrystalDisk, here are the results (based on the HDD's SMART, I guess?): https://puu.sh/Jvl3I/76be2cf7e7.jpg
Currently running HDDScan...
Some videos:
Task Manager:
During gaming:
Is this hardware related? Is it Win10 related? A firmware issue (I found no newer firmwares)? Or what?
When I first installed this HDD, 2 months ago, everything was fine. In fact, even 2 weeks ago it was pretty much fine. But now, it's a mess...
When I'm using it for basic copy-paste stuff, it's still fine. But it cannot handle heavy loads for some reason. Even my 10 year old Toshiba can, without freezing... Maybe it's an indexing error? Prior to this, I bought 2 separate WD HDDs, and both of them was faulty right out of the box. I cannot belive that I yet again got a faulty HDD even from a different brand... Help!!
PC:
MSI Z170a Gaming M3
i7 6700K 4.4Ghz
RTX 2060 Super
32GB RAM
4 HDDs & 2 SSDs
PSU is either 650 or 750W
Thank you!