One of two SATA HDDs slow after 2H22 Update.

Running 2H22 v10.0.22621 Build 22621

I have two SATA "spinning" Hard Disks, one a 3TB that's 90% full, and a 2TB drive that is 60% full. Neither is the boot drive. The larger drive is extremely sluggish from accessing folders or even populating windows in file explorer, videos will freeze when being opened or during playback, whereby the smaller drive operates without issue. I believe the problems started with the 2H22 upgrade.

All programs otherwise running normally.

I've run sfc /scannow and a checkdisk on the affected drive which took close to an hour.

Looking for other suggestions.

90% full on 3TB of a hard disk? The poor thing can hardly breathe. I'd like to know the size of the MFT on the poor thing.
I think you need to clear out some space and will very quicky see some improvement.

"Once your disk(s) are 80% full, you should consider them full"

From:Depressing Storage Calculator – JRS Systems: the blog

OAT said:

90% full on 3TB of a hard disk? The poor thing can hardly breathe. I'd like to know the size of the MFT on the poor thing.
I think you need to clear out some space and will very quicky see some improvement.

"Once your disk(s) are 80% full, you should consider them full"

From:Depressing Storage Calculator – JRS Systems: the blog

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Don't disagree, but the drive itself has been pretty much constant in terms of the storage, and only until recently did the performance noticeably deteriorate.

You said you ran SFC on that drive, so that is where your OS resides then right?
with the user/system TEMP & swapfile & pagefile possibly there as well. Those can swell up.
Can you do some clean-up?
Can you move them on another drive?
You can use a .symlink for the swap and relocate the pagefile

LarryS_nowinNYC said:

Don't disagree, but the drive itself has been pretty much constant in terms of the storage, and only until recently did the performance noticeably deteriorate.

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A HD being 90% full isn't the cause of your problem. You said you ran sfc and chkdsk. I would've started with looking at SMART values with a program like CrystalDiskInfo and for disk errors in the System event log. I would also look at CPU and disk usage in Task Manager, see if anything like defrag is running, and use Sysinternals Process Monitor to see if anything is hitting that drive. Normally background processes should get out of the way and not cause the problems you described, but you never know.

The following should NOT be the cause of your problem, but AFAIK Microsoft hasn't yet fixed the file copying slowdown talked about here: