HDD going bad? Read/Write seems okay - slow to access anyway. - Hardware & Software

[IMG]http://oi58.tinypic.com/wvv0jo.jpg[/IMG] It writes and reads kinda okay-ish but when for example - uTorrent finishes download, it keeps saying Flushing to Disk for a while, also it seems to rather affect data randomly, some folders copy/paste faster than others. Is this indication of HDD going to shit? Also could it be related to having 5 HDD's on PC? Also: [img]http://oi58.tinypic.com/2sbrcly.jpg[/img] Whatever that means?

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47727241]Access time is a bit on the high side. Would help which model it is and have you defragged it recently?[/QUOTE] Seagate Barracuda LP ST31000520AS Story of drive: It was an external HDD 3.5" SATA, I took it out and slammed into PC. It went void somehow and said partition does not exist, basically partition got lost. I had to format drive to create new partition and use Recuva to recover some vital files, after that I just formatted drive again and its' been used for a while now. [editline]15th May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47727241]Access time is a bit on the high side. Would help which model it is and have you defragged it recently? [editline]15th May 2015[/editline] wait didn't see the edit ooooh that's a pretty steep number of bad sectors, yeah i'd safely say that's dying due to bad sectors[/QUOTE] Damn, I suppose somehow telling hard drive not to use damaged sectors isn't quite how it works, right?

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47727268]Yeah, as soon as it hits a bad sector it will re-write the file to a different sector that's clean. Can't fix bad sectors. New drive.[/QUOTE] Ah damn, eventually I assume it will just fail completely one day and wont even let me access it. Well thanks anyway, will just get another WD Black as I've had no troubles with other drives yet. Doing another test on another Seagate drive, it seems to be slow as well, either seagate is shit or it's just my pure luck. Yep, fuck this. [img]http://oi62.tinypic.com/i1ekbk.jpg[/img] Damaged cable, really?

[QUOTE=arleitiss;47727286]Ah damn, eventually I assume it will just fail completely one day and wont even let me access it. Well thanks anyway, will just get another WD Black as I've had no troubles with other drives yet. Doing another test on another Seagate drive, it seems to be slow as well, either seagate is shit or it's just my pure luck. Yep, fuck this. Damaged cable, really?[/QUOTE] I wouldn't worry about that one unless it increases.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47727361]Damaged cable god damn it strikes again.[/QUOTE] Why? is that common? Also is it normal for HD tune to blitz brand new SSD's with "reallocated event count" which I googled - sometimes means bad cable. If you remember from previous threads - Told ya my motherboard is acting weird :v:

I've had three sata cables go bad, all were ASUS cables. Save the time, just buy a bunch of solid cables from amazon, replace them and try em. Cheap fix if it's the problem.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;47727542]I've had three sata cables go bad, all were ASUS cables. Save the time, just buy a bunch of solid cables from amazon, replace them and try em. Cheap fix if it's the problem.[/QUOTE] Funny enough - all HDDs are using mobo data cables that came with it. (ASUS) While SSD cables were from amazon

Clone your drive now, it could fail at any time.

[QUOTE=Metalcastr;47727650]Clone your drive now, it could fail at any time.[/QUOTE] Guess I will do that. Oh hey at least I will get two super strong magnets eventually, this time I hope I don't cause myself injury with them.

Fun fact, I use a SATA cable bundled with my MSI motherboard for my SSD now, and for some reason every 2 cold boots I get a prompt saying I need to reboot and select the proper media device. I always have to solve this by rebooting, and manually selecting the SSD in the boot menu. It's annoying as hell, but I'm too lazy to open the case and fit in an aftermarket cable.

[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;47729584]Fun fact, I use a SATA cable bundled with my MSI motherboard for my SSD now, and for some reason every 2 cold boots I get a prompt saying I need to reboot and select the proper media device. I always have to solve this by rebooting, and manually selecting the SSD in the boot menu. It's annoying as hell, but I'm too lazy to open the case and fit in an aftermarket cable.[/QUOTE] Same here, I get that shit too but it happens only when I manually restart PC, this pisses the shit out of me always.