Storage Solutions Transfer speeds from WD 7200 RPM 1 TB Sata to Kingston 480 GB SSD = max 3.01 MB/s

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Not sure what is wrong with 1 TB drive, health appears proper in various tools.
15 days back tried to defrag both HDD,
SSD went smooth, but after optimize/defrag of 1 TB drive, performance became very slow. (bad sectors were detected as well in this process).

Does 1 tb drive requires replacement ?

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Man, look at those POWER ON hours ! It definitely needs replacement as soon as possible. There must be several bad sectors on the drive and the copy process is slow because of that. Each drive has some reserve sectors to allocate bad sectors. In case bad sectors are found, then hdd marks those areas as unusable and tales out corresponding sectors from the reserve. Once it runs out of reserve you will start facing CRC error check. Replace the HDD immediately. So you HDD is trying very hard to read data and hence slow speed.

AND YOU NEVER DEFRAG A SSD. IT KILLS THE LIFE OUT OF SSD. And there is no benefit of defragging a SSD. Access time is same for all the sectors
 
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Thanks for suggestion on not to defrag SSD (will take care about this).
I have around 900 GB data on 1 TB HDD, what should be fastest way to transfer same to another HDD ?
At present it will take ages at speed of 2 MB/s, also noticed, if transfer is on, PC shuts down as the HDD temperature crosses 47* Celcius
 
First make backup of the most essential data. Leave movies and songs for the last.
At present your 1 TB HDD is the bottleneck for speed. Even a USB 2.0 is faster than that. So there is really nothing much that you can do for speed. Your best bet is to use a portable USB 3.0 drive and copy data in small batches.
Also open your side panels of the PC and if you have a table fan blow it directly over the drives while copying the files.
And keep the AC of the room to the lowest.
The HDD speed will vary. For some files it will copy at normal speed while for others it might go into KBs. That's quite normal and expected. Whenever the HDD faces a bad sector the speed slows down.

PS - You are better off downloading the movies / Games / Songs etc from the usual places than copying from this HDD. That will be faster. Lol
 
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joy.das.jd said:
AND YOU NEVER DEFRAG A SSD. IT KILLS THE LIFE OUT OF SSD. And there is no benefit of defragging a SSD. Access time is same for all the sectors
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True if you're using win7 or below. Win8+ "optimizes" instead of defrag which essentially runs TRIM command on the drive to let the firmware know what all blocks are marked as free space so the garbage collection in the firmware works on them to mark as free space. The whole process take around 10-15 seconds even if drive is over 1-2TB in size.

So this is an outdated advise.
 
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