Question New Hard Drive

[Renan27]

I just bought a new hard drive to store my games. When I start to play any game, even games to low spec PC, I'm having stutterings. so I took a screenshot in the task manager to see what is happening

https://imgur.com/a/tGdIU7X

View: https://imgur.com/a/tGdIU7X


My Specs:
GTX 970
i5 6400
16 GB RAM
SSD (Operational System)
The new hard drive that I bought is a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB (2018)

 

[rgd1101]

how full is the ssd?
during the game, what is the ram usage? cpu usage?

 

[WrongRookie]

That is what you should expect in hard drives.

HDDs are not designed to read things rapidly so the minute you do a lot in a 3D game, you're prone to see some stutters here and there.

I myself used this drive and it shows stuttering for some games even simple ones at that. I replaced it with an SSD.

What launcher are you using to run the game? If it's steam, try running the game on the SDD and see if that works.

Barracuda is not a really well engineered drive for games.