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    My Old Desktop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by wackydude1234, May 5, 2009.

  1. wackydude1234

    wackydude1234 Notebook Evangelist

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    My old desktop is getting on for 7 years old and i'm beginning to wonder if the hard drive is going to break soon, i'm saving up some money to get an external HDD but how is my HDD doing atm?
     

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    wackydude1234, May 5, 2009
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Looks like your hard drive has done some better days..

    <del>Maybe a low level format might do it some good..</del>
    I take that back. Your hard drive looks to be in a fine enough state.
     
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    wackydude1234 Notebook Evangelist

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    Lol, well atm i'm running windows 7, gotta save some money for an external driver so i can back everything up.

    what sort of things should i be seeing lol and i don't notice much difference from way back when to now really :p
     
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    Lol it's doing good for its age then?
     
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    On the health page, the error rates look a little high to me.

    I'm not really sure what to say about them, as I've haven't actually had a hard drive die on me yet.
     
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    It seems to be doing fine. Those error rates with 193633.. looks like some kind of bug with reporting.
    I wouldn't worry to much.

    When you did the benchmark, did you forget to close down every other single program that is running in the background? Because it looks like you've been benchmarking with alot of other applications running at the same time..
     
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    wackydude1234 Notebook Evangelist

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    yea i'm trying to find some website blocking program so i had firefox open and msn open plus i only have 512mb ram and windows 7 takes up alot of cpu
     
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    That hopefully explains the dip between 15-35% on your third chart. If you do the test again without interruptions, it should disappear.
     
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    yea some stupid thing kept opening during that time that's what that dip is.. i think.
     
    wackydude1234, May 5, 2009
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