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Did you run a Clean boot?
What you see may not be what you've got. Why don't you run a disk speed benchmark?
AS SSD Benchmark
Did you run a Clean boot?
What you see may not be what you've got. Why don't you run a disk speed benchmark?
AS SSD Benchmark
For some reason benchmarks don't help here. Try the practical test I suggested just to convince yourself of the issue, then assuming that's so, time to actually try finding a solution.
I apologize for asking twice. But what should I do again? Run a clean boot?
Posts #18, 22, 29.
And you can try rolling back those recent driver updates in turn, checking they are not reapplied after a restart.
Why you didn't let the test end?
Your Barracuda St2000dm008-2fr102 has a Advanced Format (AF)
That is not a conventional 512, 520, or 528 bytes per sector as it has 4096 bytes per sector.
This AF allow you to have MBR drives bigger than 2.2G. It has a special hardware to convert the AF.
If the drive has been initiated on a different way than the default it can explain the behavior.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:
Jumanji is the disk guru. Maybe he can help.
What? I don't really understand what you are saying. I thought it wasn't working because of how long it took. I will run the test again and get back to you!
Crystal disk is better for HDD
Crystal disk Mark.zip
It's a portable. Extract and run