Question Loading any game from Seagate HDD takes a long time/doesn't load at all

[AlphaSkag1]

Hi there, recently I have been having a problem with loading my games that are saved on my 2 tb Seagate drive. Any time I go to launch a game, it either will take 30-45+ minutes to load into it, or wont launch at all. I'm pretty sure this is an issue with the drive, as recently I installed Assassins Creed Odyssey to my SSD for faster load times, and thats the only game that is not affected. Im sort of at the end of my rope and wanted to see what some other people think I should do. I've defragged the drive, done a complete reinstall of windows, all my drivers are up to date, done scans and cleans with the Windows tools and SeaTools, tried a fresh SATA cable, and continued google searches dont really find much that I haven't done already. I was thinking of maybe reformatting the drive and starting fresh, is there anything else you guys would recommend? Getting a new drive isn't really an option for me right now and would love to be able to fix this issue. thank you in advance guys
if it matters, the rest of my specs are
GTX 970
Ryzen 5 2600
EVGA DDR4-3000 16 gigs
Aorus B450 mobo

 

[rgd1101]

hdd health check?
exact model of the seagate hdd?

 

[AlphaSkag1]

hdd health check?
exact model of the seagate hdd?

Scanned with WMIC, CHKDSK and the SeaGate software, those say it's all good.
The exact model is Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER164. It may be worth noting I dont hear any sort of weird noises from it, sounds like the disk is spinning smoothly

 

[rgd1101]

use https://crystalmark.info/en/ to benchmark the hdd?

 

[AlphaSkag1]

here is the text log from crystalmark
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CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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• MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
• KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 4.797 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5.584 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 0.093 MB/s [ 22.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 0.099 MB/s [ 24.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.134 MB/s [ 32.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.102 MB/s [ 24.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.094 MB/s [ 22.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.123 MB/s [ 30.0 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [D: 78.5% (1463.4/1863.0 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/09/09 15:34:09
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 18362] (x64)
unfortunately i have to step away from my computer to go to work but ill still be able to reply from my phone