Hard Drive broken or something wrong with it? Please help

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My hard drive has given me problems for a while now and it has gotten pretty bad. My C drive is usually at 100% active time and is very slow, I have around 180 Mb/s download rate but it takes me a couple hours sometimes to download a gig of data. I've ran chkdsk /r /f, I checked with malware bytes didn't find anything, and used ccleaner for my registry and C drive and nothing. Im not sure if i have some corrupted sectors in my drive so I have to replace it or is there something happening? Any input is greatly appreciated, thanks for your time.

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That seemed to work while my computer was idle, then I tried downloading an update and it shot up and wouldn't download anything. but then let it idle again and it went down.

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Did you try defragmenting the drive? Also, check the SMART tools stats on the drive to see if it's recording any recurring errors.

Edit: Steam is pretty good about downloading files without fragmenting. That's why you'll see it first allocate the space, then do the actual download - to prevent fragmentation. But a lot of other services and especially bittorrent will just write each piece of a file they download to the first free space that's available on the drive. After a few weeks or months of this, the drive ends up horribly fragmented and consequently very slow. Defragmenting will fix it once, but the long-term fix is to make sure you've set the option to pre-allocate downloads in these programs, or set up a separate partition for these programs to download into.
 
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My C drive is 0% fragmented but my System Reserved is 8% fragmented but I cant optimize it. and Error checking didn't find anything. No idea how to use SMART tools but this is what I got..
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I also noticed my pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys are taking up a huge amount of space.
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