SMART data shows nothing wrong. I just bought the drive. It is a 500GB HDD from SEAGATE with 16MB chache 7200RPM.
I have a fresh install of Windows with a few applications, nothing major. Yet, coming out of sleep mode can take over a minute just for me to bring up an RDP window.
From Task Manager, I can see the drive hitting 100% usage at around 10MB/s.
Is this normal for a new drive? What could cause this or how can I figure out what is wrong?
Could this be a bad SATA cable?