Hard drive testing tools, Western Digital

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I recently purchased what seems to be a problematic hard drive. At first it worked okay, but after a while it started causing things to slow down. Windows would take 10 minutes to boot, and even after it was booted, the PC was unusably slow.

If I put back the old hard drive, everything works fine in contrast. I've attempted to run the Western Digital "Data Lifeguard Diagnostic" tests, which it passes, and I've run a program called MHDD, which shows slow clusters (<500ms) in random areas of the drive each time I run it.

Since Western Digital's own tool give this drive a clean bill of health, RMA'ing it is pointless unless I can prove beyond any doubt that the drive is in fact faulty (if indeed it is).

Can anyone suggest any tools, paid or free, which I could run in order to thoroughly test the drive?

I'm currently running H2Testw in order to fill the drive and verify the integrity of the data, since I've run out of ideas.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
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If this is for windows, so yourself a favor and use a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do so much quicker.

As to tweaks, look into the settings for the hard drive.
Is the sata mode ADCI, Not IDE.
There are settings to enable write cacheing.
If this is for windows, so yourself a favor and use a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do so much quicker.

As to tweaks, look into the settings for the hard drive.
Is the sata mode ADCI, Not IDE.
There are settings to enable write cacheing.
 
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