slow imac, bbod persists after reformat/clean install

EtreCheck version: 5.2 (5C006)

Report generated: 2019-06-04 15:47:11

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Runtime: 7:06

Performance: Good

Problem: Beachballing

Description: 

Slow iMac despite reformat/reinstall

Major Issues:

  Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention. 

  No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found.

Minor Issues: None

Hardware Information:

  iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)

  iMac Model: iMac15,1

  1 4 GHz Intel Core i7 (i7-4790K) CPU: 4-core

  32 RAM - At maximum

   BANK 0/DIMM0 - 8 GB DDR3 1600 ok

   BANK 1/DIMM0 - 8 GB DDR3 1600 ok

   BANK 0/DIMM1 - 8 GB DDR3 1600 ok

   BANK 1/DIMM1 - 8 GB DDR3 1600 ok

Video Information:

  AMD Radeon R9 M290X - VRAM: 2 GB

   iMac 5120 x 2880

Drives:

  disk0 - APPLE SSD SD0128F 121.33 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes) 

  Internal PCI 5.0 GT/s x2 Serial ATA

   disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

   disk0s2 [APFS Fusion Drive] 121.12 GB

    disk2 [APFS Virtual drive] 3.12 TB (Shared by 4 volumes)

     disk2s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 45.38 GB used)

     disk2s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared - 44 MB used)

     disk2s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared - 510 MB used)

     disk2s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 2.15 GB used)

  disk1 - APPLE HDD ST3000DM001 3.00 TB (Mechanical - 7200 RPM) 

  Internal SATA 6 Gigabit Serial ATA

   disk1s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

   disk1s2 [APFS Fusion Drive] 3.00 TB

    disk2 [APFS Virtual drive] 3.12 TB (Shared by 4 volumes)

     disk2s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 45.38 GB used)

     disk2s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared - 44 MB used)

     disk2s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared - 510 MB used)

     disk2s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 2.15 GB used)

Mounted Volumes:

  disk2s1 - Macintosh HD 3.12 TB (3.06 TB free)

   APFS

   Mount point: /

  disk2s4 - VM [APFS VM] (Shared - 2.15 GB used)

   APFS

   Mount point: /private/var/vm

  disk3s2 - G***********e 212 MB

   Mac OS Extended

   Disk Image

   Mount point: /Volumes/G***********e

   Owners enabled: No

Network:

  Interface Bluetooth-Modem: Bluetooth DUN

  Interface en0: Ethernet

  Interface en1: Wi-Fi

   802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

  Interface en4: Bluetooth PAN

  Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge

  iCloud Quota: 164.51 GB available

System Software:

  macOS Mojave 10.14.5 (18F132) 

  Time since boot: Less than an hour

Notifications:

  /Applications/Utilities/EtreCheckPro.app

   one notification

  /Applications/Dashlane.app

   one notification

  /Library/Bitdefender/Central/Modules/com.bitdefender.vpn/Bitdefender VPN.app

   one notification

  /Library/Bitdefender/AVP/AntivirusforMac.app

   3 notifications

Security:

  System Status

  Gatekeeper: Enabled

  System Integrity Protection: Enabled

  Antivirus apps: Bitdefender

Kernel Extensions:

  /Library/Extensions

   [Loaded] FileProtect.kext (1.1 - SDK 10.14)

   [Loaded] SelfProtect.kext (1.2.12 - SDK 10.9)

   [Loaded] TMProtection.kext (5.0.0 - SDK 10.14)

System Launch Agents:

  [Not Loaded]  16 Apple tasks

  [Loaded]  170 Apple tasks

  [Running]  115 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons:

  [Not Loaded]  38 Apple tasks

  [Loaded]  182 Apple tasks

  [Running]  116 Apple tasks

Launch Agents:

  [Running] com.bitdefender.antivirusformac.plist (Bitdefender SRL - installed 2019-05-07)

  [Loaded] com.microsoft.update.agent.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-06-04)

Launch Daemons:

  [Loaded] com.bitdefender.AuthHelperTool.plist (Bitdefender SRL - installed 2019-05-07)

  [Not Loaded] com.bitdefender.agent.plist (Bitdefender SRL - installed 2019-06-04)

  [Loaded] com.bitdefender.upgrade.plist (Bitdefender SRL - installed 2019-05-07)

  [Loaded] com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdaterDaemon.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-06-04)

  [Loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-06-04)

  [Loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-05-13)

  [Loaded] com.microsoft.teams.TeamsUpdaterDaemon.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-06-04)

User Launch Agents:

  [Loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-06-04)

  [Loaded] com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-06-04)

User Login Items:

  DashlaneAgent (Dashlane - installed 2019-05-24)

   (Modern Login Item - /Applications/Dashlane.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/DashlaneAgent.app)

Audio Plug-ins:

  AppleTimeSyncAudioClock: 1.0 (Apple - installed 2019-05-04)

  BluetoothAudioPlugIn: 6.0.12 (Apple - installed 2019-05-04)

  AirPlay: 2.0 (Apple - installed 2019-05-04)

  AppleAVBAudio: 740.1 (Apple - installed 2019-05-04)

  BridgeAudioSP: 5.46 (Apple - installed 2019-05-04)

  iSightAudio: 7.7.3 (Apple - installed 2019-05-04)

Safari Extensions:

  Dashlane - App Store (installed 2019-05-24)

Time Machine:

  Time Machine Not Configured!

Performance:

  System Load: 1.29 (1 min ago) 1.09 (5 min ago) 1.14 (15 min ago)

  Nominal I/O speed: 5.22 MB/s

  File system: 138.43 seconds (timed out)

  Write speed: 45 MB/s

  Read speed: 702 MB/s

CPU Usage Snapshot:

  Type Overall

  System 1 %

  User 1 %

  Idle 98 %

Top Processes Snapshot by CPU:

  Process (count) CPU (Source - Location)

  WindowServer 5.12 % (Apple)

  EtreCheckPro 3.66 % (Etresoft, Inc.)

  kernel_task 2.20 % (Apple)

  mds 1.40 % (Apple)

  Installer 0.76 % (Apple)

Top Processes Snapshot by Memory:

  Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location)

  BDLDaemon 636 MB (Bitdefender SRL)

  EtreCheckPro 534 MB (Etresoft, Inc.)

  mdworker_shared (11) 351 MB (Apple)

  BDUpdDaemon 259 MB (Bitdefender SRL)

  Installer 225 MB (Apple)

Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use:

  Process (count) Input / Output (Source - Location)

  mDNSResponder 345 KB / 60 KB (Apple)

  rapportd 56 KB / 65 KB (Apple)

  CalendarAgent 64 KB / 4 KB (Apple)

  apsd 26 KB / 42 KB (Apple)

  netbiosd 29 KB / 7 KB (Apple)

Top Processes Snapshot by Energy Use:

   Energy (0-100) ( - )

  WindowServer 2 (Apple)

  Installer 1 (Apple)

  photolibraryd 1 (Apple)

  hidd 1 (Apple)

  photoanalysisd 0 (Apple)

Virtual Memory Information:

  Physical RAM: 32 GB

  Free RAM: 18.48 GB

  Used RAM: 6.45 GB

  Cached files: 7.07 GB

  Available RAM: 25.55 GB

  Swap Used: 0 B

Software Installs (past 30 days):

  Install Date Name (Version)

  2019-06-04 XProtectPlistConfigData (2103)

  2019-06-04 Gatekeeper Configuration Data (167)

  2019-06-04 MRTConfigData (1.41)

  2019-06-04 Bitdefender (1.2.12.212)

  2019-06-04 avformac (7.3.0.10)

Diagnostics Information (past 7 days):

  2019-06-04 15:29:59 Google Chrome.app Hang

   Executable: /Applications/Google Chrome.app

  2019-06-04 07:32:55 BDUpdDaemon CPU

   Executable: /Library/Bitdefender/AVP/antivirus.bundle/BDUpdDaemon

End of report

It was the hard drive. Replaced it with a solid state drive and it’s blazing fast!