Hello
I bought a new system about 9 months ago and I have had a couple of annoying issues with it. First of all, here are the specs:
- MSI B85-G43
- i5 4670
- XFX R7870 DD BE
- 8GB (2x4GB) Kingston HyperX Black 1600MHz
- WD Caviar Blue 1TB (WD10EZEX-00RKKA0)
- Windows 8.1
Now, about 3 months after I first got my system running, I ran into a very annoying issue at the time. My PC normally had a cold boot time of around 15-18 seconds, and a bit less starting it up from hibernate. I left my PC in hibernate pretty frequently. One day it started up from hibernate really slowly without there being any signs of slowdowns before. I had a few tabs in Chrome and a couple of other small programs open at the time, but this was never an issue before. The system suddenly felt really unresponsive. Without hesitating, I decided to restart it to see if that solved the problem, but it only got worse. It started taking 5-15 minutes to start. That was when I noticed that the disk usage was always at 99-100%. The only time it came down was when I let it rest for about 5 minutes, then as soon as I did anything it went straight up to 99% and got extremely unresponsive. I decided to do a clean install of Windows. That didn't help. After 2 weeks I ran into the same problem. I even tried Windows 7 without success. Apparently, the task that was causing the disk usage to be so high was either System, one of the "Service Hosts" or both. I decided to live with the unresponsiveness for a few weeks, and eventually it did get better. It has unfortunately left my system in a pretty bad state. A cold boot generally takes over 30 seconds and when it's started up, the system is really sluggish. The hard disk usage light is generally on constantly until a minute after I've logged in.
I recently downloaded this program called Hard Disk Sentinel, and I expected to see decent results. But, of course, they weren't decent. While it claims that the performance of the Drive is excellent, the health is only at 7% and it also claims that the estimated remaining lifetime is 8 days. That surprised me. I honestly didn't know what to think. Yesterday, 06/06/2014 at 13:30:16, I got this event on the log:
#197, Current Pending Sector Count 775 -> 772
I have no idea what that means, but judging by the exclamation mark on the left and the error message on the bottom which says "Warning: hard disk status is degraded in the past days.", I don't think it's good.
All I'm asking is, can someone please tell me what's going on. Should I get the thing replaced? Is it even something worth worrying about? How can I get my old performance back?
For those of you that have taken the time to read this and even consider giving an answer, thank you. I just want to get to the bottom of this.
I bought a new system about 9 months ago and I have had a couple of annoying issues with it. First of all, here are the specs:
- MSI B85-G43
- i5 4670
- XFX R7870 DD BE
- 8GB (2x4GB) Kingston HyperX Black 1600MHz
- WD Caviar Blue 1TB (WD10EZEX-00RKKA0)
- Windows 8.1
Now, about 3 months after I first got my system running, I ran into a very annoying issue at the time. My PC normally had a cold boot time of around 15-18 seconds, and a bit less starting it up from hibernate. I left my PC in hibernate pretty frequently. One day it started up from hibernate really slowly without there being any signs of slowdowns before. I had a few tabs in Chrome and a couple of other small programs open at the time, but this was never an issue before. The system suddenly felt really unresponsive. Without hesitating, I decided to restart it to see if that solved the problem, but it only got worse. It started taking 5-15 minutes to start. That was when I noticed that the disk usage was always at 99-100%. The only time it came down was when I let it rest for about 5 minutes, then as soon as I did anything it went straight up to 99% and got extremely unresponsive. I decided to do a clean install of Windows. That didn't help. After 2 weeks I ran into the same problem. I even tried Windows 7 without success. Apparently, the task that was causing the disk usage to be so high was either System, one of the "Service Hosts" or both. I decided to live with the unresponsiveness for a few weeks, and eventually it did get better. It has unfortunately left my system in a pretty bad state. A cold boot generally takes over 30 seconds and when it's started up, the system is really sluggish. The hard disk usage light is generally on constantly until a minute after I've logged in.
I recently downloaded this program called Hard Disk Sentinel, and I expected to see decent results. But, of course, they weren't decent. While it claims that the performance of the Drive is excellent, the health is only at 7% and it also claims that the estimated remaining lifetime is 8 days. That surprised me. I honestly didn't know what to think. Yesterday, 06/06/2014 at 13:30:16, I got this event on the log:
#197, Current Pending Sector Count 775 -> 772
I have no idea what that means, but judging by the exclamation mark on the left and the error message on the bottom which says "Warning: hard disk status is degraded in the past days.", I don't think it's good.
All I'm asking is, can someone please tell me what's going on. Should I get the thing replaced? Is it even something worth worrying about? How can I get my old performance back?
For those of you that have taken the time to read this and even consider giving an answer, thank you. I just want to get to the bottom of this.
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