[Help] Is my Hard Drive causing my computer to slow down?

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lideccomputer

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My Computers Specs:
Intel i5 2400
GTX 960 2gb
8 gb Ram
1TB Western Digital Green
Windows 10 Home 64 bit

Over the past few weeks my computer has been slowing down. This was most noticeable when playing games. Games that aren't very demanding such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch were suddenly getting really low FPS rates and changing graphics settings seemed to make little difference.

I scanned for viruses and found nothing and decided to reinstall windows about a week ago. For approximately 5 days everything ran quickly again but then suddenly my computer begun running slow again and my FPS rate dropped in games that were running smoothly the previous day.

After doing some searching online I found similar posts stating that this is a symptom of hard drive failure. I downloaded HD Tuner Pro 5.60 and conducted the Error Scan and Benchmark. (Results below)
http://i.imgur.com/IPygTaR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/jjdnnra.jpg

The Error Scan results doesn't seem to present any problems. I don't however know how to interpret the benchmark results.

It would be greatly appreciated if any of you could indicate as to whether this is a hard drive issue or potentially the result of something else.
 
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Hamperking68

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Hi,

It's not always a dying HDD. Depending on what you're playing you are probably writing to a page file.

My best advice would be to get an SSD and set that as your paging file or remove the paging file completely although this may cause game crashes.

You may also have a bottleneck from the I5 2400. Try and get something like an I7 2600 or jump on skylake.

Edit: A paging file is the file which windows writes temporary file to when there is no longer enough RAM available. Therefore your HDD speed can dramatically slow down your system. You going to notice it unless you have essentially a fresh formatted HDD.
 
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lideccomputer

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Just checked and everything in there indicates that it is fine.
 
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lideccomputer

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Do you know of a program that can track memory and disk usage in game? When I alt-tab out of the game to check task manager the numbers all drop straight away which is making it hard to track their usage.
 
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Go to the performance tab and just eyeball the disk usage graph.
 
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lideccomputer

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Just played some Overwatch which was the game that had the most noticeable performance decrease. (Dropped from a high average framerate to about 15 fps)

Memory usage was staying at approximately 50%.
Disk usage was usually around 5% but would occasionally spike up to between 10%-20%.
 
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Actually, I am really questionging HD Pro Tune now that my coworker just threw out 2 HDDs that I tested personally oin HD Pro Tune and they both passed with flying colors. Maybe Hamperking68 or someone else here could recommend another HD testing software.

A good indication that your HDD is bad is if the Harddrive light stay on all the time. It is only supposed to flash when it is being accessed so if its steady on and EVERYTHING is slow then chances are it is bad. This has been a solid indicator for myself int he past. The Harddrive light on a desktop is usually on the face of the box, on a laptop its on the edge of the box and has a little stack of discs symbol looking like pancakes.

Just something to consider.
 
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Hamperking68

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I personally use a program called "HDDScan" been using it for a while without any issues. In some occasions the drive can be failing but the SMART system may not recognise that. I've also had some good expereinces with SeaTools.

HDDScan


 
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watrhous

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well there ya go lideccomputer, download that and try it out. My boss paid for HD Pro Tune, but this HDDScan is free, praise the Lord! i will be checking it out for myself. thank you Hamperking68.

I would suggest running it and showing the results here.
 
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