Why is Your Hard Drive Slow in Speed?

Jul 26, 2021

The abnormal speed often appears on the solid state drive, and it is accompanied by the hard disk abnormality or non-recognition. There are many reasons behind it, but there are only a few that are most likely to occur. In this blog we will focus on this and give some

In fact, it happens rarely when the solid state drive is damaged, abnormal speed, or unrecognized, but there are some reasons on it:

First of all, the slow speed of the hard disk may be caused by the misalignment of 4K (not the 4K of the display resolution). Alignment or not will directly affect the speed and life of the solid state drive, so when you find that the hard drive speed is abnormal, check right away.

Note: Win10 will automatically align the hard disk, but if you are using Windows XP systems you can download the AS SSD software for inspection. It inspects the speed of the hard disk and intuitively lets you know the current hard disk performance. We can know whether the hard disk is normal through the status bar in the upper left corner.

If the speed is abnormal under the Windows 10, we can also enter the BIOS interface of the motherboard to check whether the AHCI mode is turned on. The specific setting method and location will have some small changes depending on the motherboard manufacturer, but they can basically be finished according Google.

After troubleshooting the software, if you still have questions about the speed of the hard disk, it is most likely that there is a problem with the hardware. The high speed of the solid state hard disk relies on the SATA 3.0 interface. If your home is a somewhat older host, you may need to confirm it. It is caused by SATA 2.0 without interface.

If you are using an NVMe solid state drive, except for the M.2 interface on the top, which is the "full version", the rest will usually conflict with other slots on the motherboard, and the speed will be much slower than the first one, mainly in the middle and low end. On the motherboard, flagship platforms usually have enough PCI-E channels, and naturally each slot can give full speed.

As long as the solid state drive is inserted in the right place and is not limited by the interface rate, it can be used to its full strength.

Disk dropping was a common problem a long time ago. Nowadays, this situation has become rare. In the case of sudden power failure, at most some data in the cache will be lost. It is very unlikely that the hard disk will be damaged or the hard disk data will be lost. , So you can backup data if possible, and you can choose U disk or some cloud disks.