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How long until my HD dies?

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five40

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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?
 
Could the problem possibly be...

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

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

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

?
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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.
 
Originally posted by: AkumaX
if you had WD -- tomorrow
Maxtor -- couple years
Seagate -- FOREVER 😀
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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.
 
Originally posted by: five40
Originally posted by: AkumaX
if you had WD -- tomorrow
Maxtor -- couple years
Seagate -- FOREVER 😀
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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.
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i've had 14 WD's die in the last 5 years. 3 ibms, 1 maxtor, and 0 seagates
 
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