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Hi there,
Got 3 250GB HDD's. Two are Maxtors (bought ages ago while I was dumb) and a WD.
I have Vista on one Maxtor nearly all my music, videos etc on the WD and the other Maxtor I just use for other files and family space.
I was getting a lot of slowdown in Vista x64 recently and lost a lot of space (25+GB) I thought the drive was dying. Ran HD Tach and it came back ~58mb/s so was quite pleased (drive isn't that new) Tried other drives and the other maxtor came back ~58mb/s as well, the WD came back at ~54mb/s and was making a lot more noise than the others though
I then check fragmentation using the CLI and found my drive was qutie fragmented. Went on the hunt for a decent defrager and got O&O Defrag 10.
Now that all went fine, it ran fine on my two Maxtors. When I tried doing the WD I scaned for errors first, started doing it then CLICK, it stopped scanning the WD. I told it to defrag and it start therer saying SPACE [wait]. The other drives were fine though.
I reset thinking not a lot of it at the time. After a reset I ran the defrag program again on all drives at the same time and thought I could hear a clicking noise quite frequently. I stopped all HDD defraging and the clicking stopped. One by one I started them and found it to be the WD.
Does this mean it's on the way out? I mean the WD is the oldest (about 2-3 yrs) but will it be on it's way out yet?
I ran the WD diagnogstics on the drive and the quick passed but made a baaadddd noise while doing it and the long is 10 mins through with 55 mins left. If this passes would people still recomend back-ing up? I would back-up now but I don't have any monies for a bigger HDD
If people think that it's on it's way out could I return this one or would it have to be not working for WD to give me a replacement?
I was thinking about getting a 500GB HDD for xmas and using that for the WD and the spare Maxtors job and putting both Maxtors in RAID 0 but I have now heard that it won't give me a performance increase
Cheers in advance, Doug.
Got 3 250GB HDD's. Two are Maxtors (bought ages ago while I was dumb) and a WD.
I have Vista on one Maxtor nearly all my music, videos etc on the WD and the other Maxtor I just use for other files and family space.
I was getting a lot of slowdown in Vista x64 recently and lost a lot of space (25+GB) I thought the drive was dying. Ran HD Tach and it came back ~58mb/s so was quite pleased (drive isn't that new) Tried other drives and the other maxtor came back ~58mb/s as well, the WD came back at ~54mb/s and was making a lot more noise than the others though
I then check fragmentation using the CLI and found my drive was qutie fragmented. Went on the hunt for a decent defrager and got O&O Defrag 10.
Now that all went fine, it ran fine on my two Maxtors. When I tried doing the WD I scaned for errors first, started doing it then CLICK, it stopped scanning the WD. I told it to defrag and it start therer saying SPACE [wait]. The other drives were fine though.
I reset thinking not a lot of it at the time. After a reset I ran the defrag program again on all drives at the same time and thought I could hear a clicking noise quite frequently. I stopped all HDD defraging and the clicking stopped. One by one I started them and found it to be the WD.
Does this mean it's on the way out? I mean the WD is the oldest (about 2-3 yrs) but will it be on it's way out yet?
I ran the WD diagnogstics on the drive and the quick passed but made a baaadddd noise while doing it and the long is 10 mins through with 55 mins left. If this passes would people still recomend back-ing up? I would back-up now but I don't have any monies for a bigger HDD
If people think that it's on it's way out could I return this one or would it have to be not working for WD to give me a replacement?
I was thinking about getting a 500GB HDD for xmas and using that for the WD and the spare Maxtors job and putting both Maxtors in RAID 0 but I have now heard that it won't give me a performance increase
Cheers in advance, Doug.
