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I've had the 1TB Seagate Barracude 7200rpm drive since May 2012, and it has served me well. According to Crystaldiskinfo, it has had an uptime of about 18,000 hours. I estimate it has seen about 4-5TB of data being written and deleted. Since August 2015, It has been downgraded to a secondary storage drive with a Kingston HyperX SSD as the main windows drive.
Just yesterday, I found Hearthstone (installed on this HDD) to not launch, and then I couldn't access several video files on the hard drive, but other files were apparently fine. I then tried copying them one by one to an external HDD and the files would copy "Fast" at around 25MB/s, then drop down to 0b/s for a minute, the back up. It takes about 10 minutes to copy over a 600mb file. Other files were completely fine and copied in under 10 seconds.
Is this officially a dead drive? I have all/almost all of my info either in the cloud or on the external HDD so it isn't much of an issue.
Just yesterday, I found Hearthstone (installed on this HDD) to not launch, and then I couldn't access several video files on the hard drive, but other files were apparently fine. I then tried copying them one by one to an external HDD and the files would copy "Fast" at around 25MB/s, then drop down to 0b/s for a minute, the back up. It takes about 10 minutes to copy over a 600mb file. Other files were completely fine and copied in under 10 seconds.
Is this officially a dead drive? I have all/almost all of my info either in the cloud or on the external HDD so it isn't much of an issue.