Slow hard drive

[rn_]

For some reason my hard drive randomly "dies out" on me, where it gives me LOW read and write access. Shutting down my pc for an hour or 2 fixes the problem, but that isn't really optimal.

http://i53.tinypic.com/25zns07.jpg

Any one can give me some tips to how I can find out why it does this?
The drive is new and I have returned it and revived a new one so its not the drive that's bad.

 

[saint19]

Hi and welcome to Tom's forum.

Did you tried in another SATA port?

 

[rn_]

Have now and no real improvement.

However on further inspection I noticed this:

HD Tune Pro: ST31000528AS Health

ID                                  Current  Worst    ThresholdData        Status   
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count      200      156      0        14918       warning

Health Status         : warning

There were communication errors. This may be caused by a damaged cable.

So this is the cult pit I have been after? A bad cable?

 

[saint19]

Try with another cable, but I think that problems is the HD

 

[rn_]

I have now tried 3 different cables and 1 new one.

All the same.

I also tried moving the hard drive to my old computer. I did not experience any slow down nor did that warning display.
Both my hard drive displays Ultra DMA CRC Error warnings, through my C drive does not slow down.

So could I have a bad motherboard?

 

[saint19]

Yeah, the next option is the mobo.