Hi everyone,
I've been having some problems with my HDD lately, and I have yet to figure out what's wrong with it. I've tried a couple of different actions and tests, but so far with no avail. Any input is much appreciated. I've tried to explain the issue in detail in the section below, if something is unclear, please don't hesitate to ask, I might have forgotten something,
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For the past few weeks, I've experienced really annoying freezing/lag on programs running on my laptop's WD HDD. The freeze usually lasts under 1 second, with a random frequency. This occurs on every program installed on the HDD, everything from Microsoft Office to high end games.
My laptop is fitted with 2 storage units, an SSD and the HDD. The HDD is usually used for gaming. When gaming, these random freezes can quickly become very annoying. I've noticed that the games usually freeze when a sound starts playing, or a cutscene start. Almost like it freezes when the game has to load up a new file.
When the HDD starts spinning, it usually makes a distinct "click". This doesn't happen all the time, and I haven't been able to correlate the "click"s to the random freezing. I tried to look up HDD failure sounds, but wasn't able match any of the sounds with this click. Before the freezing, I didn't pay attention to the HDD sounds. The sound might have been present while the HDD was still "healthy".
From time to time, it almost sounds like the HDD is spinning up quite often, perhaps once per minute. Is this normal? I've checked my laptop's power settings, it is not set to turn off the HDD after a short period of time.
I have tried to locate the issue through several different hard drive diagnostic programs, but with no avail. Neither HD Tune Pro, CrystalDiskInfo or Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics could pinpoint any damages. When running a benchmark test on HD Tune Pro, I noticed that the access time was a bit high, ~18 ms. Is it possible that the high access time could account for my issues?
I've also tried to defragment the HDD. It has also been reformatted.
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Best regards
Ibonhaw
I've been having some problems with my HDD lately, and I have yet to figure out what's wrong with it. I've tried a couple of different actions and tests, but so far with no avail. Any input is much appreciated. I've tried to explain the issue in detail in the section below, if something is unclear, please don't hesitate to ask, I might have forgotten something,
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For the past few weeks, I've experienced really annoying freezing/lag on programs running on my laptop's WD HDD. The freeze usually lasts under 1 second, with a random frequency. This occurs on every program installed on the HDD, everything from Microsoft Office to high end games.
My laptop is fitted with 2 storage units, an SSD and the HDD. The HDD is usually used for gaming. When gaming, these random freezes can quickly become very annoying. I've noticed that the games usually freeze when a sound starts playing, or a cutscene start. Almost like it freezes when the game has to load up a new file.
When the HDD starts spinning, it usually makes a distinct "click". This doesn't happen all the time, and I haven't been able to correlate the "click"s to the random freezing. I tried to look up HDD failure sounds, but wasn't able match any of the sounds with this click. Before the freezing, I didn't pay attention to the HDD sounds. The sound might have been present while the HDD was still "healthy".
From time to time, it almost sounds like the HDD is spinning up quite often, perhaps once per minute. Is this normal? I've checked my laptop's power settings, it is not set to turn off the HDD after a short period of time.
I have tried to locate the issue through several different hard drive diagnostic programs, but with no avail. Neither HD Tune Pro, CrystalDiskInfo or Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics could pinpoint any damages. When running a benchmark test on HD Tune Pro, I noticed that the access time was a bit high, ~18 ms. Is it possible that the high access time could account for my issues?
I've also tried to defragment the HDD. It has also been reformatted.
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Best regards
Ibonhaw
Good job with the troubleshooting, though! Since none of the diagnostic tools are detecting any issues with the drive, I would suspect a SATA connection failure. 
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