HDD failure or something else?

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Hello everyone.

I've been having some issues with my PC lately and my intuition tells me it has something to do with the HDD. The main issue is that it takes a very long time to install some things, while others are installed at normal speeds. For example it spend 4+ hours installing Latex (After I ran disk defragmentation).

I searched the forum a little about HDD diagnostic tools and came up with CrystalDiskInfo, but it informs me my drive has a health status of "good".

What could be causing my problems if not the HDD?
 
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Tried that now, I'm not allowed to do the write benchmark, but the read benchmark turned out like this:

http://i.imgur.com/2x9PbcB.png


Now I'm not entirely sure how to understand this, although I guess the sudden dives to 0.5 mb/s is a bad thing?

Also I forgot to mention before that when things take a long time to install the PC becomes unusable meanwhile, browsing will freeze the computer if attempted during the installation process. But then for other things it won't happen.
 
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It doesn't look good, but the results may be affected by interference from background Windows tasks.

The massive scatter in the access time data points suggests that the drive is bogging down with numerous read retries.

You can get a more accurate result in real DOS mode using a tool such as MHDD. It will identify any "slow" sectors.
 
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I'll try MHDD tommorow, thanks for the help. I guess while I'm here I might as well ask whether this combo would be good: Samsung 840 Pro (256 gb) and a Seagate Barracuda 2TB.

Also I'm wondering what will happen if I install Windows on the SSD and boot from it, can I acces the data on my current HDD even though it also has Windows installed?
 
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