It took 10 seconds on internal drive before files appeared and beach balls

Hi, I clicked and opened my internal drive and it took about 10 seconds before my folders and files appeared. Then when I tried to play a video which is on the drive, I got beach balls for 15 seconds or so. Afterward every video I played after that, played fine. Is there something wrong with the drive or is this normal? Thanks

Certainly sounds like you have a problem. The drive could be having a problem reading data off the disk. When this happens it will try multiple times until is succeeds, which can create this kind of delay.
I'd look to backup the data as soon as possible.

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