Question Laptop: SSD freezes but HDD works fine!

[ismmostaar1]

- Laptop Dell Latitude E6230
- Core i5 2nd gen
- 8GB Ram DDR3
- Windows 10 Pro 22H2 64bit
- Hard drive option 1: SSD Kingston KC600 (512GB)
- Hard drive option 1: HDD HGST Z7K (320GB)

So I tried replacing the hard drive of this laptop that i use for study to make it load apps and videos faster, after couple weeks of normal use the laptop would occasionally freeze and the fan would run faster almost all the time, just doing basic work and shifting between folders it would freezes for few seconds it's very annoying, and the apps and videos takes longer to load as if i'm using an HDD, sometimes Photoshop would load at 10 seconds and sometimes it'll either take a whole minute to load or freezes and not load, CrystalDiskMark test shows that the speed is still as good as the first day, and the startup time is still fast, even CrystalDiskInfo health status is fine, i also re-applied thermal paste to make sure it's not a heat problem but nothing changed
Then I replaced back the new SSD with the old HDD and this freezing problem not happening any more, though the CrystalDiskMark test result shows that the old HDD is much slower than the new SSD, but in reality it's not, any thoughts or advice on this? please if there's a recommended Article or YouTube video that a i should follow please link it, thanks.

 

[Ralston18]

How full is each of the drives?

Open Disk Management and expand the screen so all can be seen.

Take a screenshots and post the screenshots here via imgur (www.imgur.com).

 

[ismmostaar1]

How full is each of the drives?

They are both spitted into two partitions, disk C is 100GB in HDD and is 120GB in SSD, there's nothing stored on disc C except for the operating System so at least 50GB of free space in disk C, while disk D has around 50GB of free in HDD, was this info enough?

 

[Ralston18]

As I understand the post thus far:

The SSD is a Kingston product, capacity 512 GB with 120 GB being used by C:

The HDD is a HGST product, capacity 320 GB with 100 GB being used by C:

In both cases, my thought is that not enough space is being allocated for C: where the OS resides.

Moving thread from Laptop Tech Support to Storage.

Please post the Disk Management screenshot(s) so the existing partitions and sizes can be seen.

 

[ismmostaar1]

Moving thread from Laptop Tech Support to Storage.

Please post the Disk Management screenshot(s) so the existing partitions and sizes can be seen.

HDD​

SSD​

NOTE: Not that i know better than you, but i don't think it is a problem of disk space, i have used this SSD with my desktop PC for a month before replacing it with an NVME and never had a problem with it, the NVME in my desktop PC currently have only 50GB of free space and everything runs well, i bet it has something to do with the Bios or maybe it needs some advanced settings tweaking so it it'd work with this old laptop, the HDD works fine in this laptop but the SSD would freeze for few seconds every few minutes, and the apps do not load fast, even though the OS starts fast and the speed tests given are good, it's like if the laptop is not designed for SSDs!