Windows 10: External HDD goes 100 percent, pretty much all the time.

External HDD - 100 percent Hi ho there : I have an external Harddisk 8tb / Seagate. There is no new available firmware for it.The short story is, that another External Hdd died on me, which has happened once before. First time it happened, I subscribed to Jottacloud, which is a backup cloud. I still have the files in the cloud, so now I'm trying to download them to the working external hdd, but even with the smallest transfers of files, the external HDD runs at 100 percent and stops the download, so I am unable to use the hdd for my work I'm a music producer , and I have a lot of big lib

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Western Digital HDD Active Time 100 percent

Needs some advice with someone that has some experience with this.

I have a Western Digital My Book 4TB External Hard Drive about 2 months old that is not performing well, what I have noticed is that the performance drop happens when the Active time (reported by Windows 10) goes to 100%.

ISSUE: When the Drive Active time is around 30% I get about 120MB/sec, when the Active Time is 100% I get less than 1MB/sec.

What's using the drive:

• I have some vhd's on the drive
  

What I've done so far to troubleshoot

• I've checked the processes using the drive and it is the vhd's that I expect using it
  
• The vhd's are not using the drive that much to cause a 100% active time
  
• I'm using Windows 10 Pro and it is set to High Performance power options
  
• I've checked S.M.A.R.T values and they are fine
  

Here is Windows showing 100% Active Time




Here are the processes when the drive is at 100% Active Time:





Here are the processes when the drive is at around 30% Active Time:





Here is S.M.A.R.T information on the drive:

 

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?

 

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