Can a failing hard drive affect performance?

MagicSushi12

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Feb 26, 2014
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I have a hitachi deskstar 250gb hard drive thats about 10 years old and has been making weird noises for a while now, sounding like an awful extremely loud scraping and clicking, i listened to my friends pc with a wd blue drive thats fairly new and it sounded silent compared to my drive. I recently started playing some games on my computer and noticed whenever and part of a level loaded, my fps went from 40-50 down to 10-20 and stayed for a while. I thought it was my hard drive, so i did some tests and discovered i was getting about 20mb/s read and write speed, which seems terrible. I ordered a kingston v300 ssd and was wondering if these fps drops would still occur, and if it would fix crashes i often get. And yes i backed everything up cause i know the drives gonna fail.

Build
Amd athlon 5350 2.05ghz quad core (i know i should upgrade)
Radeon r7 260x 2gb gddr5
4gb 1600mhz ddr3 ram
Adding kingston v300 120gb ssd, got on sale for $60 on newegg
 
Solution
a failing hard drive can definitely cause these problems,and it sounds like yours is ready to calve on you.time for a new drive all right.