I have been having an issue on my system running Windows 8.1 for several months now. Whenever I transfer and/or extract files of at least 2GB in size my PC comes to a crawl. During this crawl phase the transfer speed itself drops from ~150-300 MB/s to less than 6 MB/s, basic windows functions such as minimizing/maximizing windows, opening and closing programs become entirely unresponsive. However, after ~10 seconds the transfer speed returns momentarily to normal and then again starts lagging behind as mentioned before. In addition, while the speed fluctuates my PC stays near unresponsive until the transfer/extraction is complete.
My specs are: Any suggestions to fix this really annoying issue are greatly appreciated.
if you're doing these transfers from a boot-drive to some other device, it could be your boot-drive is starting to give out.
i have a question. do you have this lack of responsiveness doing other tasks like gaming? or browsing the web? where you browser would say "X is not responding" (X being whatever program) then going back to normal after 10 seconds?
I usually extract to my boot drive and then transfer else where. But both actions cause this issue.
As to unresponsiveness outside of transferring/extracting in other tasks, I very rarely experience so little I would not declare it an issue. Have around 20-30 hours in Witcher 3 and only had 1 crash and no other hiccups if that helps answer that question.
I have researched a bit previously and some claim it has something to do with cache and/or temp folders. Not sure that is the case here.
oh okay now that is a problem. if you are transfering things from an SSD to something else and it's acting up. that would be a problem. the 840 sorry to say is actually very popular drive when it comes to SSDs but there is an issue with read/write speeds, the sluggish issue starts because the drive is falsely identifying corrupted read points. This problem invariably causes the SSD to repeat the read process multiple times and thus slows the drive’s performance.
Try using Samsungs SSD restoration software. from my knowledge this will fix it.
this video is fairly long. but it explains the process of what you need to do and issues as to why the issue you are having is happening. as i explained in my previous post.
