Why Your Hard Drive Gets Slow HDDs and SSDs are commonly used in your daily life to store films, games, and other files rather than with a flash drive or a DVD. However, sometimes a hard drive may become slow to read and write, and for no obvious reasons. To find out the reasons and solve the slow hard drive issue better, you should give you a head start on understanding what causes slow performance. (1) 1. Torrents and P2P software (2) 2. Insufficient power or USB ports (3) 3. Not enough free hard drive space (4) 4. Logic errors and bad sectors (5) 5. Damaged disk (6) 6. Hardware failure... Now that you have known the reason why the hard drive takes a long time to read, you can follow the fixes to solve your problem and speed up your hard drive easily. Fix 1. Upgrade the Hard Drive Fix 2. Uninstall Unwanted Programs Fix 3. Check the Speed Fix 4. Switch the SATA Fix 5. Clean Up Junk Files