I've got this 1.5TB WD I've had for a couple years, it's had 21 unstable sectors for as long as I can remember but it always functioned fine. Recently though I've been having a strange problem with it. When copying ANY file from the problem drive to another external, the transfer rate will slow down from 20MB/s to less than 2MB/s before eventually crawling back up to 20MB/s. If I write to the problem drive, however, the transfer rate is consistently fast as usual.
I've tried using different USB ports and restarting Windows but the problem persists with only this single drive. Why's it suddenly reading so slow but writing at the usual speed? Can I expect total failure soon?
I've tried using different USB ports and restarting Windows but the problem persists with only this single drive. Why's it suddenly reading so slow but writing at the usual speed? Can I expect total failure soon?