How long until my HD dies?

[five40]

Ok, so my computer has started to all of the sudden get laggy. It seemed like the HD to me because whenever I'd do a file copy things would slow to a halt. So I went and ran a little uncached file test via pcpitstop.com. I come to find out that my uncached HD performance is a whopping 6% of the standard 80gb 7200rpm 8mb cache drive. This baby is screaming out 2mb/s. So how long until the drive totally craps out?

 

[Yossarian]

3 minutes. backup now.

 

[ElFenix]

wrong forum!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Defrag it!

 

[Toastedlightly]

A billion.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Approximately 2 minutes before you go to back it up.

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Defrag it!

Did that yesterday. Did not solve the problem.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Defrag it!

that's evil! :evil::beer:

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
Approximately 2 minutes before you go to back it up.

It's already backed up so it can crash away.

 

[Colt45]

0.000 cache?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: five40

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Defrag it!

Did that yesterday. Did not solve the problem.

Then your next step should be a very large magnet!

 

[sniperruff]

faulty data cable? don't scare me because my beloved 1200JB is showing symtoms of slowing down too...

 

[eLiu]

stupid question but did it kick into PIO mode?

 

[syconub]

Originally posted by: five40

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
Approximately 2 minutes before you go to back it up.

It's already backed up so it can crash away.

sell it!

 

[illustri]

quick put it in the freezer

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
wrong forum!

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: eLiu
stupid question but did it kick into PIO mode?

I can't switch it out of PIO mode.

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: syconub

Originally posted by: five40

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
Approximately 2 minutes before you go to back it up.

It's already backed up so it can crash away.

sell it!

That's just mean, but a good idea.


and for the moral police....I won't be selling it.

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: warcrow

Originally posted by: ElFenix
wrong forum!

I don't need any help advice. I just want some guesses.

 

[AkumaX]

if you had WD -- tomorrow
Maxtor -- couple years
Seagate -- FOREVER

 

[Greyd]

Could the problem possibly be...

1) Spyware
2) Virus
3) Someone leeching from you sucking up your resources.

?

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: Greyd
Could the problem possibly be...

1) Spyware
2) Virus
3) Someone leeching from you sucking up your resources.

?

I wish it were one of those three. None of those are problems. Looks like I have to buy a new HD and reinstall everything. What crappy fun.

 

[five40]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
if you had WD -- tomorrow
Maxtor -- couple years
Seagate -- FOREVER

It's a maxtor. I have 1 maxtor die every year. It's like clock work. Needless to say I won't be buying a maxtor for a long time.

 

[jadinolf]

Thursday

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: five40

Originally posted by: AkumaX
if you had WD -- tomorrow
Maxtor -- couple years
Seagate -- FOREVER

It's a maxtor. I have 1 maxtor die every year. It's like clock work. Needless to say I won't be buying a maxtor for a long time.

i've had 14 WD's die in the last 5 years. 3 ibms, 1 maxtor, and 0 seagates