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slow hard drive
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Name: missmuffet
Date: February 3, 2005 at 23:26:23 Pacific
Subject: slow hard driveOS: XP ProCPU/Ram: 3.4Ghz/1 gig |
Comment: I have two hard drives, my main one which I keep all my programs and files on, and then I have a second one, a 160 gig Western Digital that I use to store my videos I capture and edit, it was running great for about 6 months, then in december when i was trying to edit something with Pinicle Studio 8, i noticed it was running really slow, and when i tried to record video files to the hard drive, it would drop frames and freeze the recording after a few mins, it also takes about half an hour to move a 3 gig file to the main hard drive, when it use to only take a min. I didn't make any changes to the drive, and none of the files are corrupted, it just started doing this out of the blue. Is it defected? I plan on taking it in, but I'd like to know what the problem could be first so I can tell the tech guy, since I need my comp back right away, I'm guessing all I need to do is get the HD replaced? P4 3.4 ghz
1 gb ram
Asus P4P800 se motherboard
ATI All In Wonder 9600 XT video card
40 GB Western Digital hard drive
150 GB Western Digital 2nd hard drive
LG DVD Rom
LG DVD Ram bu
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Response Number 1
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Reply: (edit)First thing I'd check is run taskmgr and click on processes and performance. See if there are things taking too many system resources. If all is well there, download Western Digital's diagnostic software, run that, and see if it says the drive is bad. MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby!
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Response Number 2
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Name: missmuffet
Date: February 4, 2005 at 01:05:42 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I ran the WD test and within 5 seconds this error came up: 06-Quick Test on drive 2 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 65 (Error Log Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 2! P4 3.4 ghz
1 gb ram
Asus P4P800 se motherboard
ATI All In Wonder 9600 XT video card
40 GB Western Digital hard drive
150 GB Western Digital 2nd hard drive
LG DVD Rom
LG DVD Ram bu
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Response Number 3
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Reply: (edit)Back your stuff up immediately. Your drive is starting to go! This is probably gonna invite flames, but I haven't been impressed with WD's reliability. I'd replace it with a Seagate. MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby!
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Response Number 4
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Name: Zention
Date: March 4, 2005 at 12:42:47 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I too am not realy impressed with WD performance. infact i think WD was the worst choice on a HD i have ever made! my problem is very slow access time. i ran WD dig tool and every thing show up good, but in a HD bench (via SIS Sandra) my ATA100 Quantium Fireball lcl20 40GB HD has a estamated max off 100bytes (millions per second or somthing to that effect) but its olny accessing data with busting speeds of 4.8!!?!!?! and its constant is some where around 12? maby my drive is goind dead? but its olny 2 or so years old. i am realy glad that its olny my secondary HD, my primary is a Maxtor 20GB used for windows,dirvers,and programs. my Western digital is for games. can any 1 shead some light on this "odd" HD problem?
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