can a drive fail by going really slow?

tomos · 17 Nov 2012 at 17:57

i have a WD drive in an enclosure. tried another drive in its place and all fine. put this 1.5TB WD drive in there and it's soooo slow! 10 mins to copy 50MB onto it! doing a chkdsk now for any errors (which will take eons) but as it's external then SMART info doesn't get sent over.

any ideas folks?

tomos · 17 Nov 2012 at 18:02

difficult since i can't reboot for a few days more (encoding). can do then but figured i'd try to figure stuff out in the meantime

tomos · 18 Nov 2012 at 00:05

ok, encrypting it with truecrypt as a speedtest - 983KB/sec. wow!

damn thing is out of warranty too as of last month

tomos · 18 Nov 2012 at 16:41

i suppose in a way this is better than a sudden total failure. at least we got our data off.

anyhoo, since truecrypting it over night, the speed jumped from KB/sec to 20MB/sec (over usb). weird

tomos · 18 Nov 2012 at 20:21

ok, its formatted via truecrypt. mounted it and copied some files and now it's transferring over at 40MB/sec. very very weird