WD Red very slow. Why?

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Hello,

I’m running new WD Red 3TB (Drive Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0) attached to Motherboard Model: ASRock Q1900DC-ITX under Windows 7 x64 as a full ~3TB GPT partition.

Firstly, attaching this HDD, even cleaned and unformated, slows down Windows boot process significantly (system is on Intel SSD).

Secondly, after establishing a partition, when I start moving data to the drive, the first ~ 500MB are copied at normal rate and then the drive nearly stops working and the moving proces is almost halted and goes forever.

Here is output of winsat test

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I’m now runing HD Tune read test and I do not presume the results would be much better.

Can this be caused by some setup problem or is this clear evidence of drive failure?

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hello and welcome to the WD community.

I recommend running diagnostics on this drives to make sure that the drive might be failing, you can try to use this software to test the unit for errors:

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=619&sid=3&lang=en

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Ok, so I started extended test 3 days ago and now I’ve found it will last for 11171 hours. Here’s a screenshot.

so this test just confirm that the drive is really slow. I’ll try quick test and hope it’ll finish in some reasonable timespan.

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Did you find a solution for this problem?

I have a similar issue on a 1TB WD drive . . .ANY access including the “Quick Test” is very very slow.
Thanks
vwq47

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I am going to bump on this post as I have exactly the same problem.
Consistant data-transfer of about 3.3 Mb sec.
and also 1000+ hours for a diagnostic.
Extended SMART check ran without errors though.

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Hi,

I wasn’t able to find any software issue so I went to WD warranty service portal, I’ve registered myself and my unit, filled in a RMA (Return Material Authorization), and send my unit into nearest service center. WD has replaced my unit with new one which now operates normaly.

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ack … all points to defective drive then … Thanks for reply tho :slight_smile: