7200rpm HDD performing slowly

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Almercenary

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Hello,
So 2 years ago (about) I bought a Hitachi 1tb 7200rpm HDD think I could use it for a long time. However, the speeds weren't very good, but i dealt with it. Then recently, the speeds completely dropped out. I used to get around 40mb/s from it (even though it advertised 80mb/s) and now its dropped to 12mb/s. The boot can take up to a minute and I just don't know whats going on. My PC is reasonable spec (7970 OC edition, i5 2400, 8gb 1333mhz Gskill ripjaws, gigabyte HA series Motherboard and a 750 watt corsair CX series PSU). Has anyone got ideas at why this has happened as I'm not ready to go out and buy an SSD. Anything that you think is bottlenecking the hard drive? Also, a quick last question, would this be slowing down how fast I can download steam games as it sticks at about 1.6mb when speed test shows i can DL at 11mb!!!
I mostly have games, Movies and music on the hard drive, about 500gb of games, 60gb of music and 150gb of movies/TV shows. (all on steam/origin and itunes) I have about 280gb free space.
All help would be much appreciated as I'm sick of slow speeds
 
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For the hard drive: Try running disk defrag to speed it up a bit. Chances are your slowdown is due to the HDD having to search through a lot of data to find what it needs. It's probably not a bottleneck on the HDD.
For your DL speeds:1.6MB(megabytes)/s (what we base our speeds on) is equivalent to 11 Mb(megabits)/s (which is what your ISP Bases your speeds on). There are eight bits in a byte, so divide 11 by 8 and you get 1.375. So you're actually getting more than you pay for.

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For the hard drive: Try running disk defrag to speed it up a bit. Chances are your slowdown is due to the HDD having to search through a lot of data to find what it needs. It's probably not a bottleneck on the HDD.
For your DL speeds:1.6MB(megabytes)/s (what we base our speeds on) is equivalent to 11 Mb(megabits)/s (which is what your ISP Bases your speeds on). There are eight bits in a byte, so divide 11 by 8 and you get 1.375. So you're actually getting more than you pay for.

 
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Yeah, thanks, I got my megabytes/bits mixed, not very good at internet related stuff. But I have tried 2 disk defragments, one with the default windows defragmenter and a 3rd party one, both didn't really have a change in peformance
 
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