Is my hard drive about to explode?

Doogle · 23 Apr 2010 at 00:25

WinRAR has been super bad so i thought maybe my hard drives were up **** creek.

I downloaded this programme called HD Tune Pro

Acording to the benchmark my media drive has a min read rate of 0.1M/s and a max of 2.7M/s. My os drive has a steady 60M/s.

Is my HDD about to fail?

Kind of hope it is as it will mean i have an opportunity to ditch my rig and make a HTPC

Doogle · 23 Apr 2010 at 01:14

Cool, there was a health tab, it said warning, and then it said the cable could be faulty, so i've opened my case, wiggled teh sata cables about, they seemed fine to me so assumed it wasnt them, tried the read test again and it is back to like 80m/s which is ace.

Still kind of tempted to get a new rig though

SupermotoMX · 23 Apr 2010 at 11:20

more than likely was a loose connection then

matthab · 23 Apr 2010 at 12:37

try swapping or replacing the cable.

icedbullet · 23 Apr 2010 at 13:16

Good tip on the HD tune program its come in very useful to assess some HDDs i thought were failing (due to high temperatures in the enclosure)

rpstewart · 23 Apr 2010 at 13:27

Is HDTune showing high CPU usage as well as slow speeds? If so the drive will have dropped down to PIO mode rather than UDMA. Usual fix for this is to delete the offending controller channel in device manager, reboot and let windows pick it up again.