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hardStyl3r

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Hello, I really couldn't think of a more concrete title, but here we go.
Before we start, I need to clarify some things.
HDD (D:\) is SAMSUNG HD753LJ, HDD (F:\) is SAMSUNG HD502HJ and HDD (G:\) is TOSHIBA HDWD110.

My main computer is:
Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X (it was never overclocked and is cooled well)
RAM: 32GB of DDR4 G. Skill F4-3600C17-16GTZKW (currently running at 2133MHz, I don't have time to tinker with them now)
Windows 10 2004 with all drivers from manufacturer's site. But I checked with and without them.

The (Dad's) computer I checked my drives with (and it was all fine):
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA970-UD3
CPU: FX-6300
RAM: 16GB of DDR3 Corsair Vegneance Pro Red
Windows 10 2004 with Windows' drivers.

The issue started about 2 or 3 weeks ago I guess. Suddenly, my main HDD drive (D:\) started freezing the entire computer for a short period of time. Actually, every program that barely touches the drive (D:\) is frozen for a bit. Yesterday, I finally got fed up with the issue and decided to deal with it. I gotta say, I was really clueless what could cause the issue, so I just checked everything, here's what I've already done (not the exact order):
  • changed SATA cables
  • ran chkdsk
  • cleaned them (lol)
  • updated and downgraded bios
  • reinstalled the OS
  • check their health with CrystalDiskInfo and HDTune - both very alright
  • plugged them in to other computer
The last thing on the list is what surprised me very good. I was thinking that the drive D:\ was just getting bad, so I checked his brother, drive F:\. He performed very well, even better than drive D:\. Today, I ran CrystalDiskMark on them and F:\ outperformed D:\, but I am not sure if that helps. Yesterday, the D:\ was working so bad, it couldn't even start the bench. I copied the Direct X installer to my D:\ from my SSD OS drive and here's what happened:


Then I checked on my Dad's computer the D:\ drive and it worked so good that I was amused how good HDD can do. It never freezed and usage time never spiked above 10%.
Along with all the changes, my G:\ drive started working worse and worse, plugged it to the second computer and it worked good, too.

When the drive is "freezing", it looks like this. It was stuck on 100% active time, 0 ms response time.

When I did the benchmark, it strangely spiked to 30000ms response time(???). It spiked even to 60000ms when I used it more heavily.

Here's CrystalDiskInfo for it:

chkdsk D: /F /R /X

Today, when I first turned on my computer, it started doing disk check on D:\. It passed it. Also, my computer can't boot with Secure Boot enabled anymore.

If you need more info, please let me know. Sorry if it seems a bit chaotic, I am just so confused and English is not my native language.
Greetings.
 
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any unusual sound from the hdd? like heavy spin or spin up and down, clicking or any unusual sound
i have hdd that from app looks fine but when i copy big files it will hang
and i guess better you do backup before it down
 

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any unusual sound from the hdd? like heavy spin or spin up and down, clicking or any unusual sound
i have hdd that from app looks fine but when i copy big files it will hang
and i guess better you do backup before it down
There isn't any sound from any of mentioned disks. It's not about big files, it's just that it struggles with any operation done on it. It only happens on my computer as I mentioned in the thread, so maybe I am in the wrong section?
 
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There isn't any sound from any of mentioned disks. It's not about big files, it's just that it struggles with any operation done on it. It only happens on my computer as I mentioned in the thread, so maybe I am in the wrong section?
just try put a big files like movies and copy it back from the hard disk, i bet you gonna hear heavy spin when it struggles reading the disk then it will hang forever
 

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just try put a big files like movies and copy it back from the hard disk, i bet you gonna hear heavy spin when it struggles reading the disk then it will hang forever
I copied Harry Potter BrRip to D:\. I didn't hear anything, but I felt the disk was doing stuff. And it just can't finish the copying.

Here's what Task Manager is showing:


I plugged it then to the second computer and it didn't struggle with anything.
 
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I have two advice's:

1) Unplug any external USB hub and test the system with out it.
2) Replace the power supply with one this worth real money = 120 Euro or more.
 

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I have two advice's:

1) Unplug any external USB hub and test the system with out it.
2) Replace the power supply with one this worth real money = 120 Euro or more.
1. I have no USB hubs connected to the computer.
2. The power supply is not cheap. On my computer it's SileniumPC Supremo FM2 Gold 750W and on the second one it's SilentiumPC Supremo L2 V2 550W.

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I solved the problem! The issue was that all drives were connected using the same cable, so I added two additional ones and it's working like a charm now.
 
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