I have this hardisk from last maybe 9 months or so . I have noticed it has a very slow speed rates but it was ok in playing videos and gaming although of the less data rates.
The problem has arised today now it is working at data rates well below or eqaul to only 1 MB ???
I have a seagate 500 GB it is working good. But WD20EARX has suddenly gone into very slow data rate speed ! Please help solve this problem I am facing ?? Is the hardisk broken or isit some settings i need to do ??
Have you by chance just recently repartitioned and reformatted the drive? If so, it’s an advanced format drive. If you’re using it on XP, you may have to download the AF alignment tool.
You don’t need to use the partition alignment tool if you are using Windows 7. 7 automatically does it when you partition and format the drive the first time. Are you running the drive as an internal drive? If so, when was the last time you defragged it? I can see that you are using it for media. It’s possible that after this much time, it’s become fragmented, and may need to be defragmented.
Wow, that’s bad. The only other thing I can think of is maybe some corruption may be slowing it down this bad. Can you back up the files on the drive and do a repartition and format. Then see if that picks up the performance. However, if you do have some corrupted files, you may go back to the bad performance. You could try running Windows error checking and see if it finds something. You can also run WD’s DLG Diagnostics and see if there may be some bad sectors. Other than that, I’m out of recommendations.
I will perform windows error check and also have already used DLG WD Tool … Results are SMART is PASS and QUICKTEST is PASS now I am running EXTENDED Test result pending …
Plus I dont have an extra or spare hardisk to backup my data
The extended test is what tells you whether you have any bad sectors. The error checking will tell you if there is any issue with the file system, including corruption. Many times it can recover the bad files. It will take some time to run those tests.
I am maxed out here … Dont know what to do … So I called the shop from were I purchased it and as it is underwarranty they are saying to backup my data and bring the WD20EARX they will send it to the company to check it … So i am backing up as much as possible into a 500gb and 160 gb hard