Hello SNGX. I've been surfing the forums for the same problem for a while and I just need to present my problem as well. Maybe if we find out what's wrong in every occasion we'll have a lead to the problem. I have a hunch that all this has something to do with Win 8 as well.
I've been using Win7 Ultimate forever without ever experience such problem. I have also been using Win 8.1 for as long as 5 weeks without any problem whatsoever. I was extremely satisfied with my booting times and overall performance.
I am going to begin with a few words about my rig. It's mainly for family use and some gaming. It has a Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.00GHz, 4GB of ram (3,19GB) all on a Win 8.1 Pro (64-bit naturally).
I also have 2 HDD: C: 149 GB (ATA) and E: 153 GB
Filesystem is on C and I mainly use E for my storage needs. Yesterday, I found out that my game loading times were crazy slow. A quick look at the TaskManager revealed that E (where my gamefiles are stored) Was reporting a 100% Active Time, 0 R/W (or abnormally low) and Avg. Response Times raging from 1000ms to 22000ms (yes... that is 22 thousand). My first thoughts were: "Holy **** it's dying!". I found out I could access small music-image files with no problems, but moving the big backup files from the near death drive to the one that seems to be working would end up just like yours. At the beginning, normal speed for 5-6 seconds, and that's it. The graphs looked exactly like yours, (both the file transfer and the Task Manager ones.
At this point I recall, few days before, I was trying to move a big bulk of files from a LAN Linux PC through samba, and it wouldn't work unless I moved them in small groups. At the time I thought it was a linux smb problem, but now I know the truth.
Browsing through this thread I tinkered the paging setting as someone suggested. I assumed I somewhere screwed up, since now disk C: is showing the same symptoms. I reverted the settings to what they were before I touched them and rebooted several times. Yet the problems persists, now affecting both the general storage disk AND my filesystem disk. Now I am starting to experience some general lagging on normal tasks that would be alright before, with one disk spinning like crazy.
I can't help but worry about this glitch causing physical damage to my disks, since I can hear some high pitch sounds coming from the box.
I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with hardware, since it has been reported on high performance server systems, family PCs, gaming rigs and laptops, all running Win 8 or 8.1.
I've been using Win7 Ultimate forever without ever experience such problem. I have also been using Win 8.1 for as long as 5 weeks without any problem whatsoever. I was extremely satisfied with my booting times and overall performance.
I am going to begin with a few words about my rig. It's mainly for family use and some gaming. It has a Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.00GHz, 4GB of ram (3,19GB) all on a Win 8.1 Pro (64-bit naturally).
I also have 2 HDD: C: 149 GB (ATA) and E: 153 GB
Filesystem is on C and I mainly use E for my storage needs. Yesterday, I found out that my game loading times were crazy slow. A quick look at the TaskManager revealed that E (where my gamefiles are stored) Was reporting a 100% Active Time, 0 R/W (or abnormally low) and Avg. Response Times raging from 1000ms to 22000ms (yes... that is 22 thousand). My first thoughts were: "Holy **** it's dying!". I found out I could access small music-image files with no problems, but moving the big backup files from the near death drive to the one that seems to be working would end up just like yours. At the beginning, normal speed for 5-6 seconds, and that's it. The graphs looked exactly like yours, (both the file transfer and the Task Manager ones.
At this point I recall, few days before, I was trying to move a big bulk of files from a LAN Linux PC through samba, and it wouldn't work unless I moved them in small groups. At the time I thought it was a linux smb problem, but now I know the truth.
Browsing through this thread I tinkered the paging setting as someone suggested. I assumed I somewhere screwed up, since now disk C: is showing the same symptoms. I reverted the settings to what they were before I touched them and rebooted several times. Yet the problems persists, now affecting both the general storage disk AND my filesystem disk. Now I am starting to experience some general lagging on normal tasks that would be alright before, with one disk spinning like crazy.
I can't help but worry about this glitch causing physical damage to my disks, since I can hear some high pitch sounds coming from the box.
I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with hardware, since it has been reported on high performance server systems, family PCs, gaming rigs and laptops, all running Win 8 or 8.1.
