Just got this drive. Brand new from a retailer in Romania, shipped in an anti-static bag. I install the drive, then when I boot up the system, I hear some very faint clicking, which quickly goes away when I initialize the drive in Windows Disk Management. I give it a single partition, set its file system to NTFS, and set up Steam to download all of my games to it.
Steam starts downloading, which is when I notice that it's not doing a lot of a progress. Task manager shows that the drive is pinned at 100% and Steam seems to be downloading in "spurts". Between these spurts, Steam shows 0 network activity and slow drive activity, while task manager shows ridiculous average response times (200ms-1920ms), and 60MB/s read. I don't understand what is happening.
I managed to fix this temporarily by stopping and then resuming the download, but the "spurt" downloading came back after it finished an item. Is my HDD defective? I checked in Seatools, it passed all tests, and I also checked in HDD sentinel, which showed 100% health. CrystalDiskMark results are as expected (200MB/s everywhere except in random read/write as this is an SMR drive).
Please help. Thank you.
Steam starts downloading, which is when I notice that it's not doing a lot of a progress. Task manager shows that the drive is pinned at 100% and Steam seems to be downloading in "spurts". Between these spurts, Steam shows 0 network activity and slow drive activity, while task manager shows ridiculous average response times (200ms-1920ms), and 60MB/s read. I don't understand what is happening.
I managed to fix this temporarily by stopping and then resuming the download, but the "spurt" downloading came back after it finished an item. Is my HDD defective? I checked in Seatools, it passed all tests, and I also checked in HDD sentinel, which showed 100% health. CrystalDiskMark results are as expected (200MB/s everywhere except in random read/write as this is an SMR drive).
Please help. Thank you.