I have similar problems, the amount of uncoordinated disk accesses that seem to happen constantly are murder for older spinning disks. After a while it levels out but that's usually after the first hour of usage- resource monitor clearly indicates what sent my disk queues up as Microsoft code that's recommended to be on such as defender. An SSD is absolutely required, or at least a modern hard drive with SATA 3.0 instead of SATA 2.0 for the extra iops.

> or at least a modern hard drive with SATA 3.0 instead of SATA 2.0 for the extra iops.

The interface is unrelated to the IOPS you get out of a hard drive. 3Gbps SATA II has no trouble delivering far more than the ~200 IOPS a 7200RPM hard drive is capable of.

I'm running Windows 10 on a machine that's about five years old. No SSD. It's quite snappy. The only issue with speed is startup times are long if you force it to do a full restart.

Not a fan of the UI changes, or the advertising. If I didn't buy Office 365 every other day for the last year, what are the odds your popup will get me to buy today?

Right click on the tile and "Remove". There's also a setting which blocks reinstalling those preloaded crap "apps" with updates. O&O Shutup 10 can help with that.

> You either have a hardware problem (mechanical disk?)

Windows 10 cannot work on a hard drive?

In a way, it makes sense: when my father upgraded from Seven to W10, W10 never worked properly and killed the hard drive in a matter of 3 days.

Sure it can, but mechanical drives are just comparitively glacially slow agianst SSDs and 'general OS snappiness' is one of the major real-world examples of where you feel it.

Yet windows 7 ran fine with them, performing the same functions.

What a day we live in when having a mechanical disk for a primary OS drive is straight up considered a hardware problem.

I fully agree with you, though. An SSD this day and age is mandatory.