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Hard Drive Program?

Boyo

Boyo

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Is there a program that will give you your actual read/seek times for your HD? I know in SpeedFan SMART it gives spin up time, and my Raptor is actually slower than my WD Caviar 320GB. 113 vs. 200....

The reason I ask is because when running SpeedFan SMART, it lists my 74Gb Raptor as 92% healthy and my WD Caviar 320GB 100% healthy. In two weeks the Raptor went from 94% healthy to 92% and I fear it's on its way to failure.

Any other programs that will check your read/seek times?
 
Speed fan is about as accurate as it gets, do you have an intake fan assuring air cools your hdds? Maybe it's heat deterioration?
 
I ran WD Diagnostics and everything came back fine, but it does not provide the amount of detail in SMART that SpeeFan provides on the overall health of the drive.

I have a 120mm intake fan blowing right on the HD's in my Lian Li, so it's not a heat problem. I bought the drives at the same time in June. It's just shocking to me that my Raptor's health is down to 92% while my 320GB Caviar is at 100%. Not really sure why the difference in health and spin up time.....

Any suggestions or theories????
 
Any other programs that will check your read/seek times?
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Well to check hd performance, I use HDTach. As far as the smart status goes, I wouldn't loose any sleep over it. My raptor went to 89 something after 3 weeks because I left my computer on overnight once! :frown: Now I just use it to check relocated sector count. The one good thing about smart is that it scared me into backing up my data. hint hint...
 
Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Any other programs that will check your read/seek times?
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Well to check hd performance, I use HDTach. As far as the smart status goes, I wouldn't loose any sleep over it. My raptor went to 89 something after 3 weeks because I left my computer on overnight once! :frown: Now I just use it to check relocated sector count. The one good thing about smart is that it scared me into backing up my data. hint hint...
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Thanks a lot for the link. I'll down load the program, it looks exactly like what I have been looking for. Thanks again.
 
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