Failing HDD can cause FPS DROP and STUTTERING?

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Whenever i'm playing i'm experiencing lag and stuttering on all of my games? Is it because of my HDD? I check my health in HD tune and it says that "Reallocated Sector Count" Current = 1, Worst = 1, Threshold = 33360, Status = Failed.
Help me thanks.
 
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Yes, it is really that bad. That HDD is seriously damaged.
33360 relocated sectors! No spare sectors left.

Backup whatever you can. There will be unreadable data, that you will not be able to backup.
And get a new HDD.

If it is still under warranty, you can get a replacement for free.
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A failing hard drive can cause all kinds of issues with any number of things on a computer. If the drive is the one that your OS in on (Windows, Linux, etc) then I would buy a new SSD and reinstall your OS on it and then buy a cheap traditional hard drive to install your games and large programs on.
 
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What is the rest of your system?
What games do you play?
Perhaps there is another reason.

If a hard drive sector fails, it will be reallocated to a spare sector.
A single reallocated sector should be of no consequence so I do not understand "failed"

Download the diagnostic utility for your drive.
It will have the ability to reallocate weak sectors hat need many retrys to read/write.
The scan should be non destructive.

Regardless, convert your C drive to a ssd.
Use the Samsung ssd migration tool and you will not have to reinstall.
 
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I'm playing Dota 2, GTA V, The Witcher series, Specops and NBA 2K17. Even i change the settings to low it still has the same fps and the stuttering continues.
 
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I will try to do that.
Yes i'm running msi afterburner.
 
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Yes, it is really that bad. That HDD is seriously damaged.
33360 relocated sectors! No spare sectors left.

Backup whatever you can. There will be unreadable data, that you will not be able to backup.
And get a new HDD.

If it is still under warranty, you can get a replacement for free.
 
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