I have a brand new 4TB Seagate Barracuda HDD that I bought barely 4 weeks ago that seems to act weirdly since a few days.
I noticed that whenever theres any kind of activity(writing/reading)on the HDD, the hard drive turns super slow, and has 100% disk usage, and writes/read at less than 1mb/s when trying to do other operations at the same time on it (normally does about 160mb/s write and read speed when under no load).
For example, yesterday, I was downloading 2 600mb files from 2 websites, the files were being downloaded slowly (50kb/s) due to websites restrictions, so there was about 3hrs left of download. These 2 files where being downloaded on that Seagate HDD.
I left my PC running and came back 3hrs later, the files were done downloading (600/600mb) but seemed to be on hold to be copied on the hdd, and the HDD was again at 100% disk usage and terribly slow...
If I try to turn off the PC while this HDD is stuck/frozen at 100% disk usage, the PC half turns off, everything seems to turn off but the power light only turns off(to indicate that the PC is REALLY completely off) 2-3mins+ after the system has turned off; wich makes me guess that it is because of the HDD that is stuck/frozen at 100% disk usage and the PC is waiting for it to turn off..
Opening a program installed on that HDD can sometime take a while and when I do so, again the disk goes to 100% disk usage, and even after closing the program the disk still remains at 100% even when no copy operation or program running on that HDD are being executed... The 100% disk usage can remain a good 5mins after closing down application that were running from it, before the disk usage finally goes back to normal(0%).
If I try to copy several big files on it, disk jumps to 100% again, and if I cancel the copy, the disk still stays at 100% for a few minutes before going back to 0%... Running games from the HDD works just fine..
This 100% disk usage seems to happens randomly and not everytime wich is weird. I tried to check in ressource monitor to see whats using all or most of the disk ressources, but its most of the time ''System''(wich is the write/read operation being executed on the at that time HDD(file copy, application running on it etc..) and nothing else really..
I tried to run Seatools(Seagate drive testing software) tests on it, and all tests passed succesfully
I only have 7 days left to return this HDD, so I am wondering if someone ever had that issue with Barracuda HDD, or know what could be the problem. Like I said the HDD is brand new..
Thank you