Windows 10: HDD gradually slowing down

I'm facing issues with new hard drive yet it's transfer and download speed is diminished quickly regardless of whatever framework equivalent any longer. Seagate backup HDD 2TB.

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Hi Johan,

It is possible that your
HDD was unreadable
causing the error message to appear. We recommend that you perform these troubleshooting steps and check if there are any changes:

• 
  Shutdown
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Unhooked
  the
  HDD
  and
  turn on
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Reconnect
  your
  HDD
  and
  restart
  your
  PC.
  

If the issue persists, we suggest that you contact your
laptop/computer's manufacturer
for further assistance.

Update us on how it goes.

Regards.

 

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Keyboard entry gradually slows over time; Resolves when I close/reopen browser

Over the last 6 mos, my system seems to gradually slow down until I close and reopen the browser (Edge or Chrome on Win10).

• I ran system diagnostics on memory and network interfaces and have no issues. (using Norton and Microsoft diagnostics)
• Problem resolves and then gradually returns.
• Occurs when I use spreadsheets (e.g., navigating between spreadsheet cells) and using network cloud software (e.g., TurboTax). The system just become unresponsive and it moves from being very responsive to data entry into a form or spreadsheet to gradually
  get slower and can take 30 seconds to get a response.
• I defragged the disk and deleted temp files (using Norton antivirus)
• Edge and Win10 are on latest release, as is Chrome browser when that is used.

My pc is a laptop with an Intel I5 processor (around 7 years old), and 6GB of main memory. Plenty of disk storage. When running the performance monitor I don't see any obvious issues of overloaded resources. Ethernet connected to a high speed network
(25Mb/s upload and 3.5Mb/s download).

Can't figure out what is wrong or next steps to diagnose issue.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

thank you