New SHDD suddently responding VERY slow - Seagate Desktop SSHD

I have a two months old: Seagate Desktop SSHD - 2TB

Im running this SSHD as a secondary drive (have an SSD running as boot), being a "backup" drive.

I've created two partitions with it:

• one with 1.5TB
• one with 300GB'ish

Suddently whenever requesting anything from that drive, the response time is VERY slow. At a point it was slow and next day alright again, however the last 4-5 days it has been consistantly slow.

I experience the following:

• When clicking through folders and (usually) reaching some 2-3 inner folder index, the SSDH stops up and VERY slowly loads (with progress bar) before the folder renders

• Writing to a file (like .txt, .php, .js /whatever) *saving work - takes 3-4 secs everytime saving

• I have noticed that the drive would very often say some "tick" noises, like it was "thinking", even when nothing really would be happening on the computer.

• Under "Joblist > Disc profiling - I don't see anything unusual pingin' out here (without knowing much about processes)

I have tried the following:

• Right click on the drive and run for the disc for errors > nothing found

• Under "Storage"/"Disk Management" under status it says "E: + D: > Status: Ok, primary partion" (whereas the C: says "Boot, Chrashdump, Primary partion")

Any suggestions on further "debugging" or things I could check or do before considering sending it back to the supplier?

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