Your drive could be dying. Try removing the files and putting them on a external drive. Then see if that speeds the computer up again.
Powerful machine - hard drive has started being REALLY slow
specs: Intel i7 920 @ 3.6ghz
6gb ddr3 @1450mhz
Asus p6t deluxe v2
ATI 5850
OS: Windows 7 ultimate
My main OS hard drive is a Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1tb 7200rpm, connected via Sata 2. I have two other hard drives connected via sata 2, and three connected via USB, however I doubt these are causing the problem.
Performance has always been fast, and I usually have about 600gb free of my OS hard drive. Recently, I have been moving some big files to some folders that I created on my desktop, this reduced the free space to about 300gb free. At first I didn't notice a problem, however recently I have noticed that whilst transferring files over to the desktop folders, the whole computer's performance is very sluggish (e.g when trying to web browse.)
As an example, I copied about 6gb of files from C:/documents to a folder on my desktop, and the transfer rate was.... 15mb/s. This is awful considering I am copying files to the same drive, and the drive is internally connected via sata2. I can barely web browse as it keeps stuttering...what could be causing this slowdown? I have ran defraggler, it first said 32% fragmented but after running it (took hours and hours) it was 1% fragmented. Yet it's still slow, any ideas? Could it be because I am now storing large files in the folders on my desktop? or maybe something else?
edit: I have just tried to run "benchmark" on "HD Tune Pro" - for the read test I get "read error! test aborted" and for the write test it says "writing is disabled. To enable writing please remove all partitions
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" I rebooted but get the same message
"file benchmark" results http://oi52.tinypic.com/29zyh3d.jpg
thanks
6gb ddr3 @1450mhz
Asus p6t deluxe v2
ATI 5850
OS: Windows 7 ultimate
My main OS hard drive is a Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1tb 7200rpm, connected via Sata 2. I have two other hard drives connected via sata 2, and three connected via USB, however I doubt these are causing the problem.
Performance has always been fast, and I usually have about 600gb free of my OS hard drive. Recently, I have been moving some big files to some folders that I created on my desktop, this reduced the free space to about 300gb free. At first I didn't notice a problem, however recently I have noticed that whilst transferring files over to the desktop folders, the whole computer's performance is very sluggish (e.g when trying to web browse.)
As an example, I copied about 6gb of files from C:/documents to a folder on my desktop, and the transfer rate was.... 15mb/s. This is awful considering I am copying files to the same drive, and the drive is internally connected via sata2. I can barely web browse as it keeps stuttering...what could be causing this slowdown? I have ran defraggler, it first said 32% fragmented but after running it (took hours and hours) it was 1% fragmented. Yet it's still slow, any ideas? Could it be because I am now storing large files in the folders on my desktop? or maybe something else?
edit: I have just tried to run "benchmark" on "HD Tune Pro" - for the read test I get "read error! test aborted" and for the write test it says "writing is disabled. To enable writing please remove all partitions
"file benchmark" results http://oi52.tinypic.com/29zyh3d.jpg
thanks
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