Massive slow-down after hard drive upgrade? (Macbook Pro)

[thegeek]

OK, so I've done all of what mostapha suggested (except defrag due to the fact that it would take DAYS to do), starting from the first item on the list to the last.

Repairing permissions really seemed to help and almost got me back to 100%. But I'm STILL getting really annoying hangs in various programs, ESPECIALLY in web browsers. I've tried Firefox and Chrome and Safari and they all seem to do it Basically, click on a link, program (not computer) freezes, get a pinwheel, and then I get function back after the page is fully loaded or action is completed. It even does this on startup when loading my home page (www.surfline.com). The more programs I have open, the worse it is.

Fortunately, Traktor seems to be pretty bulletproof in terms of audio output. I might get an unresponsive screen, but whatever action I take is executed on immediately and I've only had one audio dropout with iTunes open, a 250gb file transfer running in the background, and 50gb of torrents going, too. Wanted to stress test it.

So, at this point, I'm REALLY close to 100%, and would LOVE to get the browser issue resolved (sonofabitch, if it didn't just take 20 seconds for another tab of the forums to load, all while pinwheeling!). Any suggestions, anyone? Any common programs or processes that might be running in the background that I should check for?

EDIT: Or is this just something I should expect with 450GB of data on my drive?

Thanks!

[photojojo]

Do you have any browser extensions that might be slowing it down? Since you use the torrents it's possible you do and not even know it. Not sure how to check for those kinds of things. If you have a 500 gig drive and out 450 gigs worth of stuff on it that could cause things to slow down some I think.

[thegeek]

Do you have any browser extensions that might be slowing it down? Since you use the torrents it's possible you do and not even know it. Not sure how to check for those kinds of things. If you have a 500 gig drive and out 450 gigs worth of stuff on it that could cause things to slow down some I think.

Drive is 1TB, so lack of space shouldn't be the issue.

I do have browser extensions installed. Good idea -- I'm going to disable all of them plus unused plugins to see how it affects things. Thanks!

[JesC]

JesC: I'm real, and I don't work for MCETech.com. I live in La Jolla, CA. Here's proof I'm not some shill, if you find it THAT hard to believe. :P

The only reason I was asking is MCETech is from San Diego. But Ill take you word for it.

Hey, i think you just got a bad HD, return that bad boy!

[thegeek]

The only reason I was asking is MCETech is from San Diego. But Ill take you word for it.

Hey, i think you just got a bad HD, return that bad boy!

You might be right, but it just seems really unlikely since with the SAME exact hard drive in an external drive case with all my media files on it I never had a single issue. :/

Anyway, it's livable now, so I'm just gonna deal with it for the time being and hope that when I go to an SSD when I can swing it that things improve.

[loop]

Have you checked the reading of the S.M.A.R.T ? it has to be "Verified". You can read it from the Disk Utility and from the "About This Mac" -> "More Info"

There's also an app to pull the S.M.A.R.T. status in the background. It can warn if something's wrong: [ame="http://download.cnet.com/SMARTReporter/3000-2086_4-49263.html"]SMARTReporter for Mac - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com[/ame]

I would also suggest you to start "Activity Monitor" app and monitor the disk and CPU usage. The dock icon can display either. I also like the iStat Menu (the latest version costs something, but the previous one is legally free and I happen to have it)