Question How do I fix an issue around my hard drive (st2000dm008) being unable to download anything over 5 gb

[Jellyous3]

So I've gotten this pre-built pc around a year and a half ago, and suddenly I need to download something but my ssd has ran out of space, and remembered I had a 2 TB hard drive I haven't used yet. When I downloaded a few images it was okay but once I started downloading things that were bigger it was struggling, I tried downloading 'apex legends', a game on steam it seemed to have forgotten the hard drive, and wasn't seen on the task manager until I restarted the whole pc. I tried downloading again and it had done the same thing, I looked at the download performance and the disk usage was increasing and decreasing, until it reached rock bottom and the whole download stopped.

sorry if this is just an issue with how the pc is or built, but is there a reasoning behind this? would really like to get this hard drive to work thanks

 

[rgd1101]

health check the hdd?
how full is it?

full system spec?

 

[Jellyous3]

health check the hdd?
how full is it?

full system spec?

Error check said everything was good

136 gigs used / 1.81TB

SPECS


Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700F @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Disk Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB
ST2000DM008-2FR102
GPU GeForce RTX 2060

 

[rgd1101]

how full is the ssd?
the download might be using the ssd as cache

 

[Jellyous3]

how full is the ssd?
the download might be using the ssd as cache

Originally it had 4 gigs left until I delete some stuff, and now has 87 gigs