HD About to die?

[Absolution75]

I was trying to watch some movies and noticed some massive skipping. I updated my codecs and it persisted. Checked my drivers etc. Then I thought, mmm, it looks like hard disk trashing. I loaded up HDTune and saw the most awful benchmark ever.

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Notice that the performance is almost absolutely 0mb/sec at some points. Is this a sign that the HD is about to die? This is a pretty new one.

Also, my 2.5" E-SATA HD runs fine, hovers around 40MB/sec for the most part. Anyone have an idea whats going on?

 

[fallsroad]

Your best bet is to run the manufacturer's diagnostic off a boot CD. You can find them on their site.

Run the Full tests - takes longer, but it will uncover any problems if the drive itself is at fault.

 

[solog]

better start copying anything important from that drive just in case

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Either its dying or DMA is turned off