My 1 month old wd blue 1 tb HDD is slow

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Arcticfox1977

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I have built my PC myself. I had it up and running and everything was super quick. The other week I took the plunge to upgrade to windows 10 and this is when things went wrong. HDD light stays on and it takes an age to install anything on the HDD.
I have now went back to windows 7 with a clean install. The problem is still here.
System specs
I5 6500
Gigabyte b150m-d3h mobo
Geforce 750ti
Corsair 500w PSU
8gb ram
250gb ssd sandisk
Western digital blue 1tb HDD
At the moment I'm trying to install steam and its going on 1hr 13mins.
Boot up is under 20 secs for windows.
Shutdown is very slow and take up to 4mins.
 
Solution
Is this for the Quick test? If it is, it's really way too long, which is not a very good sign. Have you tried the drive with a different computer or different ports and cables on yours?

Other than that, TRIM is an OS function, which you might say, maintains the SSD and keeps it at its optimal performance throughout its entire life by cleaning the memory blocks of the drive. You can find more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_%28computing%29
And here's an article with info on how to check if it's enabled and enable it if it isn't: http://lifehacker.com/5640971/check-if-trim-is-enabled-for-your-solid-state-drive-in-windows-7 (this goes for the newer versions of Windows as well).

Please let me know what are the results...