Debugging slow Sierra

[sabotage3d]

Hi, I am having slowness under Sierra it look like it is related to hard-drive. On Windows and Linux everything works super fast, on Sierra everything starts really slow and when I open a folder with Finder the files display with big delay. Even copying small txt file takes ages. What would be the best way of debugging this kind of issues?
My build is based on this guide: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...s-viii-gene-i5-6600k-gigabyte-gtx-950.181272/
These are my specs:
Motherboard: Asus Z170-PRO
CPU: Intel Core i7 6700k
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz
PSU: FSP Blue Storm II 500W (quite old but haven't had problems with my old build)
HDD: WD Green 2 TB

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Can you post the exact specs for your HDD ? Model number etc...

 

[sabotage3d]

These is the complete summary:

WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0:
Capacity: 2 TB (2,000,398,934,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Revision: 51.0AB51
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Medium Type: Rotational
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
disk0s1:
Capacity: 471.9 MB (471,859,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: Windows Recovery
disk0s2:
Capacity: 16.8 MB (16,777,216 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s2
Content: Microsoft Reserved
Windows:
Capacity: 161.06 GB (161,063,370,752 bytes)
Available: 80.31 GB (80,314,441,728 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Tuxera NTFS
BSD Name: disk0s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/Windows
Content: Microsoft Basic Data
Volume:
Capacity: 1.62 TB (1,624,030,314,496 bytes)
Available: 556.15 GB (556,151,234,560 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Tuxera NTFS
BSD Name: disk0s4
Mount Point: /Volumes/Volume
Content: Microsoft Basic Data
SYSTEM:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Available: 143.7 MB (143,716,352 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk0s5
Mount Point: /Volumes/firmwaresyncd.x5FAWg
Content: EFI
CLOVER:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk0s6
Content: EFI
SIERRA:
Capacity: 213.64 GB (213,641,252,864 bytes)
Available: 126.39 GB (126,390,132,736 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s7
Mount Point: /
Content: Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s8
Content: Apple_Boot

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

There are 2 things I would consider right now. First of all your HDD is a 5400rpm mechanical spinner, which means performance isnt going to be top drawer. Second you have a number of non-OSX partitions loaded onto it. When you open file explorer and it goes away to find the contents of the folder/partition you are looking at, it could easily be slowing things down a little bit.

Are those windows based partitions loaded on the OSX desktop ? If so, you might consider disabling the loading of at least some of them.

If you have any other disks available (SSD or faster spinning HDD) you might do a quick install to one of them so you can compare performance.

 

[P1LGRIM]

It is not recommended to install the operating system onto a 'Green' drive because of the energy saving features slowing things down.

 

[sabotage3d]

Thanks guys. I also have Tuxera NTFS to enable read write on the NTFS partition which I use to share files between OSX and Windows. It looks like at time this hard-drive is sleeping or something. I can stream content from is really slow compared to my Windows 10 and Ubuntu on the other hard-drive. Do you know any tools that I can analyse the speed? I tried a few but they all show good speeds, thats why I am confused.