Storage Solutions Seagate 4TB Internal HDD is it dying? look at these screenshots

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I bought this Seagate 4TB (ST4000DM004) HDD in 2017. Using it from then as a basic storage drive in my PC which has very good airflow to the HDDs. Currently, I'm troublesooting some PC freezing problems and currently testing the HDDs.

I did a seagate Tools long generic test overnight and it showd no errors on this drive. so formatted it and now tried transferring data to it from an SSD, disabled Windows Security. see if the foll screenshots are normal. avg response times are even reaching 2 to 3 seconds :eek:

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I m having similar problems in my 3tb hdd.
Some video files are stuck while playing and also while copying those files the copy speed goes down to 2mb and then stucks at 0kb.
This behaviour is limited to specific files.
I thought those files might be corrupt but the source from where i copied it has no issues running the files.
I have tried running some diagnostic softwares but it says the health is good.
Any ideas?
 
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Try a new cable and a different mobo sata port and sata power plug as well.
You haven't posted your system config, I hope you are using a good psu and the connected devices etc. aren't bottle-necking each other as these larger drives are power hungry.
Also disable any other hdd you might have while only keeping ssd and this 4th attached.

If that works, I will provide an explanation but
If that doesn't wok, you provide an explanation!
 
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If you have one of those powered external 3.5 hdd sata dock, you can remove the drive from pc and put it in the external dock to see if you get such low speeds while copying. personally I don't see anything wrong with the hdd. Some other drive is the problem. If the drive you're copying from (the samsung one) has problems, then it could drive down the speeds too. I think the low speed might be due to the large number of files. 15k files is large. If you tar them up in one file like large file.tar and copy it, it should copy at 60+MBps
 
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