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Erratic slow behaviour after changing HD

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About a week ago I changed my secondary HD from a 500GB to 2TB, copied and repartitioned etc.
I expected a slow backup perhaps on the next backup, but it seemed normal.
However since then on two days (I do a daily backup) the backup has taken 8 or 9 hours. Normally it is well under an hour.
They are incremental, not full, and no more data than other days, usually around 10GB or less.
I have pinned it down to the info "29/05/2018 00:55:47 :: Data (D:) (1.8 TB) 506.5 GB read at 17 MB/s [CBT] . . . 8:29:27" ONLY 17MB/s, whereas other normal days it is reading at 145MB/s on average.
Why should this happen on random days? Is there some strange fault with my new HD?
Any ideas where I might look for the underlying cause - and a solution?
Thanks, Bob
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Re: Erratic slow behaviour after changing HD

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Hello Bob,

Can you defrag volumes on your new hard drive and then check the incremental backup performance? Also please clarify what backup target you are using. Thank you.
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Re: Erratic slow behaviour after changing HD

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(Sorry for delay - for some reason I didn't get an email informing me of your reply. I'll check my setting')
Thanks Dima. By doing some further diagnosis, I think I have pinned it down to Microsoft PHOTOS running in the background. I am also beginning to suspect that this was making some very minor changes to masses of photos/pictures, as the GB read by Veeam has now dropped from (e.g.) 506 GB read at ...(CBT) to more like a few GB read.
Certainly since switching off PHOTOS ability to run as a background task, backup times have dropped from hours to a few minutes, which is what they used to be. There are quite a few threads on MS discussions about PHOTOS hammering CPU and/or HD!
I might try a defrag anyway, as it is some time since I have done that.
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Computer Manager at Bedford School, UK (since 1999).
Veeam user since 2009.
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