Dying HDD or is there a fix ?

Kuj0

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I searched the internet for a similar graph on HD Tune but after not finding anything I decided to post here.

Basically, I knew something was wrong with my HDD when my PC was sluggish and I decided to inspect in the Task Manager / Performance tab. My HDD was at 100% with a 3MB Read speed while doing medium-usage tasks (running a VM, playing a game, Photoshop, etc. - not all at once even).

So I read up and got HD Tune and did a read test that presented me with this following image

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So obviously, something is terribly wrong with my Western Digital WD 6400 AAKS

As I'm writing this I'm performing an error scan but so far (60%) all is good and the test is running at the expected ~100MBps.

I'm asking what more can I do to solve this issue or if I need to do some back-up and change it ASAP.

Thanks in advance!

Adding my health status from HDTUNE

HD Tune Pro: WDC WD6400AAKS-00A7B0 Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 200 200 51 0 ok
(03) Spin Up Time 154 153 21 5291 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 0 611 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 200 200 140 0 ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 200 200 0 0 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 43 43 0 41685 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 549 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 200 200 0 236 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 200 200 0 611 ok
(C2) Temperature 96 84 0 51 ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 200 200 0 0 ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 200 200 0 0 ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 200 200 0 0 ok
(C7) Interface CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 200 200 0 0 ok

Health Status : ok

 
Solution
Make a clone of the hard drive ASAP, or at the very least back up any data you don't want to lose.

I can recommend clonezilla for making a clone of the drive, fast and pretty easy.

I'd recommend if you can, cloning the drive to a new hard drive and comparing performances. If all you
do is clone drive A to drive B, and the system starts working much better then drive A was the cause.

brandonkick

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Make a clone of the hard drive ASAP, or at the very least back up any data you don't want to lose.

I can recommend clonezilla for making a clone of the drive, fast and pretty easy.

I'd recommend if you can, cloning the drive to a new hard drive and comparing performances. If all you
do is clone drive A to drive B, and the system starts working much better then drive A was the cause.
 
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