HDD (slave) slow - Hitachi hua72201 1TB model

andaja

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(Sorry for the wall of text)

Hello those who are kind enough to help others :)

So i encountered a problem with my HDD (or so i think :D ). Since my SSD was full (only 120Gb :( ), i installed Steam onto my HDD and i think everything was fine, but sudenly it got slower (i think). E.g. my steam opens very slowly and CS:GO loads like in 1min. (when it loads, after the pictures comes up, it takes like 10-15frames to fully open the main screen). I mean it doesn't just open, it brightens up with each frame that takes 1s to load each. Meantime for all those 10-20s after it actually gets into game but still is loading main screen the lag is terrible. Even sound repeats it-self again and again... After those X seconds it's fine. Maps load slower then usually. In game it keeps completely freezing for 0.5-1s from time to time. Since it's Hitachi HDD (very loud HDDs. like floppy readers from 90s :D ) i think i noticed a difference in sound pattern. When it has to read something, it doesn't just make sound constantly, but in short bursts. E.g. (i know it looks stupid but...) instead of Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it goes like br...br...br...br...br...br as if it's stuck or something. I read somewhat about HDD failures and how sometimes it shows read drops down to 0 in HD Tune if it's about to fail, but it's not the case. Although as i checked some of other HDTune test results, i think mine is too low. Other Hitachi HDDs go from ~150MB/s to ~50MB/s towards the end of benchmark and mine is just stuck at ~50MB/s. Doesn't go neither up nor down.

So my question is: am i just making it a problem or there actually is one? :D
I want to know if it might be an upcoming failure of HDD or not.
 

andaja

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Sorry, misunderstood what you wanted to say (you missed: "be" used to) :p And the health part is fine, i guess. There's "Attention" mark under (C7) Interface CRC Error Count. but only 3 errors (considering the type or error i don't think there's a problem.) I might be over-thinking this, but better be safe :D