Windows 10: 100% HDD Usage 0 write or reads on Windows 10

My 4tb Ironwolf pro 5400rpm recently started acting up and going to 100% usage with 0 write or reads after about 5 minutes in any game and impossible to play, but for any other files or transfers the drive works flawlessly and at its rated speeds. I tried every kind of diskmark, official seagate app and many others that I struggle to even remember the names and all of them rated the drive at its normal speeds, showed no bad sectors, said its OK and at 100% Health, also tried multiple windows diskcheck which took a while, but also resulted in clean results. I'm really struggling to see why this

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HDD Read Write Stutter with click sound. Usage goes to 100% every stutter?

System:

• Processor : Intel® Core™ i5-4460 Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz)
  
• Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-B85M-HD3
  
• Operating System : Windows 10 Pro
  
• Harddisk: Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP102 1 TB 7200RPM
  

I HAVE REPLACED MY HDD WARRANTY 4 TIMES that the seller is thinking I am trying to intentionally break it.
My HDD sometimes produced "clicking" sound. Every time the sound comes up, this is what happened:

1. Every program (music player) or games (while loading) stopped.
   
2. The HDD Stopped Spinning and immediately start spinning again.
   
3. In Task Manager, HDD Usage went full 100% with write and read at 0 Kb/s.
   
4. It takes almost always the same amount of time every click to be responsive again.
   
5. Sometimes fixed by hot unplugging the power cable and replugging it to HDD
   

THIS HDD IS 3 DAYS OLD. I have just exchanged it for warranty 3 days ago and this symptoms is always happening to all every HDD I exchanged. When this happen, it keep stuttering and clicking until about an hour. This only happen on heavy load (game updating, software downloading).
Things I have tried:

1. I have tried this suggestion: Disk usage goes to 100%
   
2. Ran HD Tune Pro Trial to check for error block and 100% safe
   
3. CrystalDiskMark reads OK for every aspect. Power on hours is only 70 Hours.
   
4. Bought and put up Stabilizer and UPS Before putting this HDD
   
5. Install and update Motherboard's driver
   

I have ran out of clues. What should I do?

 

Slow HDD read and write speeds

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We will require a few more information from you to help you further with the issue. Please reply with the following details:

• In which device are you facing this issue?
  
• Are you using an external HDD or internal HDD?
  
• Are you getting the read and write speed issue on any particular application?
  

However, you can Disk Defragment on your computer to optimize the drive. To run Disk Defragment please follow the steps from the article

Defragment your Windows 10 PC.

Alternatively, you can check for the read and write speed of the HDD in task manager. Please follow the steps mentioned below to check the read and write speed of the hard drive:

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc key together on the keyboard.
   
2. Click on Performance tab.
   
3. Click on Disk 0.
   
4. You will find the Read speed and
   Write speed at the bottom of the window.
   

Hope it helps.

Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Disk usage 100%, read/write 0kbps

Okay, so

Lately I've had crazy boot and load times, and what appeared to be disk issues (usage was 100%, read/write was little-to-none). Disabled a few things in services.msc (superfetch and windows search), which fixed the 100% constant usage.

But boot and load are unaffected. and i've also found that in games(Ark) and stress tests (prime95 blend), i can't get ram usage over 5.6/8.

I'm not sure if the problems are related. This is my first foray into 10forums, and my tech knowledge is limited.

any thoughts or suggestions? will provide details as needed