Hard Disk question

[andiey]

So I have 2 internal SATA HDD.

When I click on the hard drive in Windows 10,

it takes a while for the contents inside the drive to appear, like 30 seconds; you can see the green bar running from the left to the right in the explorer.

What is the problem with my HDD?

 

[EarthDog]

Nothing at all. It is waking the drives and indexing/loading thumbnails, etc.

You can try to disable quick access and see if that helps...

 

[Nero1024]

So I have 2 internal SATA HDD.

When I click on the hard drive in Windows 10,

it takes a while for the contents inside the drive to appear, like 30 seconds; you can see the green bar running from the left to the right in the explorer.

What is the problem with my HDD?

Are your drives in sleep mode when not used or running all the time? You can try to disable indexing to speed loading times

 

[andiey]

I dropped them once.
Could it be the hard disk drive read head is damaged?

 

[dgianstefani]

Your problem is that you're using hard drives instead of solid state drives. Expect slowness.

Seriously though. Samsung 860 evo/970 evo plus are so damn cheap now for capacity I don't know why people still use hard drives.

The non-volatile storage is arguably the most important part of the computer. Everything else is just processing/power delivery/IO etc. Your data is on the disk drive and I can't understand why people trust spinning rust for their stuff, then invest thousands on the rest of their builds or on stupid stuff like RGB.

 

[DR4G00N]

Your problem is that you're using hard drives instead of solid state drives. Expect slowness.

Seriously though. Samsung 860 evo/970 evo plus are so damn cheap now for capacity I don't know why people still use hard drives.

The non-volatile storage is arguably the most important part of the computer. Everything else is just processing/power delivery/IO etc. Your data is on the disk drive and I can't understand why people trust spinning rust for their stuff, then invest thousands on the rest of their builds or on stupid stuff like RGB.

Hard drives are great for high density low cost storage, nothing wrong with them at all and they're not even that slow either. Where can you get a 4 or 6TB SSD for $150?

 

[dgianstefani]

Sure, but don't post in a forum about slow speeds if you're using hard disks. That's the tradeoff.

And the low cost is gambling that nothing happens and you don't experience mechanical failure. Which you will eventually with HDDs.

 

[Solaris17]

Have you checked health with crystal disk info?

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

if the drives appear to "wake up" and become more responsive, likely the power scheme is the culprit. you can always create a new power scheme to not "turn off disks".

 

[biffzinker]

Easy way: Start Menu, search for power, click on powercfg.cpl

Click your way through Settings, System, Power & Sleep, scroll down to Additional power settings or Control Panel then click Power Options.

Go to chosen profile, click change plan settings, click change advanced power settings, expand Hard disk, expand turn off hard disk after (the default 20 minutes) to zero (0.) Click apply

 

[Ruyki]

Your problem is that you're using hard drives instead of solid state drives. Expect slowness.

The drive contents appear instantly when I click on either one of my mechanical hard drives.
The issue OP is having should be fixable and is not caused by him having a mechanical hard drive.

 

[micropage7]

Except you find unusual rattle, or spin up and down, or suddenly some files corrupted. That's the sign of wear

 

[Solaris17]

I dropped them once.
Could it be the hard disk drive read head is damaged?

Please try CDI? https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/71535/CrystalDiskInfo8_3_2a.exe/

 

[eidairaman1]

I dropped them once.
Could it be the hard disk drive read head is damaged?

Yup.

Easy way: Start Menu, search for power, click on powercfg.cpl
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Click your way through Settings, System, Power & Sleep, scroll down to Additional power settings or Control Panel then click Power Options.

Go to chosen profile, click change plan settings, click change advanced power settings, expand Hard disk, expand turn off hard disk after (the default 20 minutes) to zero (0.) Click apply

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Set to never if possible

 

[cucker tarlson]

So I have 2 internal SATA HDD.

When I click on the hard drive in Windows 10,

it takes a while for the contents inside the drive to appear, like 30 seconds; you can see the green bar running from the left to the right in the explorer.

What is the problem with my HDD?

spin up time.
more platters,more time to spin.

30 seconds is waaay too long though.

 

[biffzinker]

I once dropped a older 1 TB hdd by accident, and it survived. I'm guessing the heads were parked on the ramp off the platters.

The orange plastic piece to the right

 

[andiey]

Except you find unusual rattle, or spin up and down, or suddenly some files corrupted. That's the sign of wear

Another weird phenomenon is that like when I was playing a game, the whole rig was frozen. When I check on the case panel, the hard drive light was on for like 90 seconds, then everything is back again!

spin up time.
more platters,more time to spin.

30 seconds is waaay too long though.

Sometimes, 90 seconds


Will Crystal Disk fix it?

 

[DR4G00N]

Another weird phenomenon is that like when I was playing a game, the whole rig was frozen. When I check on the case panel, the hard drive light was on for like 90 seconds, then everything is back again!


Sometimes, 90 seconds


Will Crystal Disk fix it?

Something definitely seems wrong there, crystal disk info won't fix it but it may show a reason why it's doing that.

 

[eidairaman1]

So I have 2 internal SATA HDD.

When I click on the hard drive in Windows 10,

it takes a while for the contents inside the drive to appear, like 30 seconds; you can see the green bar running from the left to the right in the explorer.

What is the problem with my HDD?

Check or replace cables. After that replace drive...

 

[Static~Charge]

Another weird phenomenon is that like when I was playing a game, the whole rig was frozen. When I check on the case panel, the hard drive light was on for like 90 seconds, then everything is back again!

It sounds like your drive is having problems, and the o.s. has to try multiple times to read the data.

Will Crystal Disk fix it?

No. CrystalDiskInfo will pull the drive's S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) stats. If the drive has been logging any errors, CDI will alert you when it runs. If it finds any problems, please do a capture of the CDI screen and post it here.

 

[newtekie1]

The drive contents appear instantly when I click on either one of my mechanical hard drives.
The issue OP is having should be fixable and is not caused by him having a mechanical hard drive.

This is going to depend a lot on the drive itself. Even if you turn off all the power saving features in Windows, some drives will still park the heads and spin down the platters when they are idle.

 

[xvi]

CrystalDiskInfo will let you change AAM/APM, which might override some hardware-level power saving. I don't think it's worth jumping into that first though. The speculation seems pretty wild considering we know very little about the drive.

OP isn't going from SSDs to HDDs and reporting it's slow, OP is going from a HDD originally to a HDD that now feels slower. I would recommend checking CrystalDiskMark first and going from there. If the drive is healthy, it could be junk or corruption. Could be fixed as easily as a thorough chkdsk scan.