Which tool should be used to fix a sluggish magnetic-based hard drive?

Using the Optimize Drives tool is a suitable approach to addressing issues with a sluggish magnetic-based hard drive. This tool is designed to defragment and optimize storage devices, particularly traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), which can experience performance degradation due to file fragmentation over time. Fragmentation occurs when files are scattered across the storage medium, leading to longer access times as the read/write heads of the drive must move to different locations to retrieve data.

Optimize Drives helps to consolidate fragmented files, thereby improving the efficiency and speed of the hard drive. It can also execute scheduled maintenance tasks to ensure continued performance over time. This makes it a practical choice for enhancing the operation of magnetic-based hard drives that are underperforming.

In contrast, other options such as Disk Management focus more on partition management rather than performance improvement, Storage Spaces is intended for managing and pooling storage devices for redundancy and performance but does not specifically target slow access speeds due to fragmentation, and Mount point is a feature related to Windows file management and does not apply directly to performance issues.