So I build a desktop computer about 2 months ago and I am using a WD Black 1 TB hard drive, and I have noticed that it has been performing very poorly. It was purchased used from Amazon. When playing large games like Rainbow Six: Siege or GTA V, the disk is shown in task manager with 100% being used, and everything including the game runs very very slowly. 100% usage is shown when around 40 MB/s are being used. This is very frustrating as while playing Rainbow Six, everyone else in the server finishes loading before I do, and on occasion the game runs very slowly the whole time. A lot of lag occurs while traveling very quickly in GTA V causing the map to be loaded in quickly, but to me it seems like it should be performing much better than it is.
Here is the link to where I got the drive:
It passed a quick test.
Bump.
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