Hard Drive gone bad?

Sharpedge

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I have a 40gb Maxtor HDD ata/33/66 pre ata/100 model. I was checking out PCPitstop.com and there site reported the uncached speed to be .25mb/s. I had noticed it was taking longer and longer to access items on it. I did a similar test using Norton Utilities, benchmarking and it showed the same in the uncached. Cached was 2.+mb/s. Does this mean the drive has or is going to fail?

I have added a second drive 60gb ata/100 with PCI card and it runs fine and fast.

My Rig

P3V4X Bios 1005
600mhz P3EB
4-n-1 drivers 4.31
OS WIN ME

Thank you for any assistnace or suggestions you may have. The drive is two years old.