Weird Windows 10/Drive Issue

I've been having problems with my 1.5 TB Green WD for about a year now. On Windows 7, sometimes it would go unresponsive and I couldn't access it. Restarting/letting it do a chkdsk would fix it. Ever since switching to Windows 10, sometimes when accessing the drive it will completely lock up, also bringing Windows 10 to a crawl with it.

But this time when I restart and Windows 10 goes to do a repair, it will either sit there at the Windows 10 loading screen or flash to a black screen that goes nowhere when it goes to do a Windows Start up repair. I have to boot from a completely separate drive I have (640 GB WD Black) with a Windows 7 install on it for it to do a chkdsk. After that I can switch the boot device back to my main SSD and it will start fine.

Why is Windows 10 having problems doing a chkdsk when the drive screws up? Why is Windows 10 taking a performance hit when my storage drive is locked up with 100% usage?

Also, I'm currently doing a error scan on my WD Green and it has been stuck at 4545 files processed now for about 2 hours. Should I just give up on this drive?

hmm. Run any WD diagnostic software on it? Sounds like a failing drive.

Backup the drive and replace it... no doubt about it....

had something similar happen (1Tb green), on windows 8.1 , some of my steam games were trying to update but would stall out. Disabled page file for the drive and it works again.
on windows 10 now with no page file, didn't check if its works.

If your os is on there might be more troublesome (my os is on another drive).