Windows 10 VERY SLOW, during file transfer

[alnahdi.ako]

Good day,

I have a Lenovo laptop with the following specs:

i7 5500U 2.4ghz
6gb ddr3 ram
1tb hdd
Running Windows 10 home 64 bit

My problem is whenever i start transferring files either between internal drives or to an external drive, my system becomes VERY SLOW and almost unresponsive at times.

I honestly couldn't figure out why.

Btw transfer speed is within range avg of 30-40mb/s

Id appreciate it if someone could shed some light on it.

Thanks ALOT!

 

[Colif]

have you gone to Lenova web site for laptop and checked you have latest drivers? I think it can run an auto update on the site.

 

[boosted1g]

Are we talking about transferring large files, or talking about small files?
30-40mbps is actually normal if transferring small files.
With that said, it should not slow your system to a crawl, what is your Ram usage?

If you are transferring large files (hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes) and it is that speed then that tells me either your sata controller is not working right or your hard drive may be on the early stages of failure.
Colif's suggestion of checking for updated drivers is a good one.

 

[alnahdi.ako]

Hi Coliff,
I suspected that before, and did the lenovo updater app i downloaded from their website.
And i updated outdated drives, yet problem persists.

 

[alnahdi.ako]

Hi boosted1g,

It actually happens when i transfer large size files but not to the point of 100's of gigs.
It happened last time when i transfered 25gbs of files from drive C to drive D.

P.s. sorry about the downvote, i just woke up and mistakenly clicked the down arrow and couldn't undo it.

 

[Colif]

So are C & D the same hdd as you only mentioned the one in the machine?

I expect transferring data from 1 drive to itself is going to be slow as it has to read the data and store it in ram and then move the physical drive head, and write the data again, rinse & repeat. The problem is a physical one only really solved by an ssd that has no moving parts. SSD not total solution as they slow the tfr speed down once their buffers are full but tfr speed is still faster than hdd

that doesn't fully explain the external one though. Does it use USB 3? what make/model external drive is it?

i fixed the accidental downvote.