The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    possible hard drive failure?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hehe299792458, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. hehe299792458

    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    175
    Messages:
    1,571
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I took out my hard drive yesterday to clean the case. I thought I had been rather careful with it - though I did accidentally bump the HDD cage onto its side. It was on a carpet and I thought nothing of it. However, today, I benchmarked the drive and found that its access time was all over the place (it wasn't like this before). The transfer rate also increased somewhat. The SMART reading appear to be normal though. Does the weird access times indicate imminent drive failure?


    EDIT: I did run the SeaTools (they are seagate 7200.11's), but it reported everything to be normal too. And no, I wasn't running anything while I did these tests.
     

    Attached Files:

    hehe299792458, Aug 14, 2008
    #1
  2. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

    Reputations:
    385
    Messages:
    2,662
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I think it's normal.A small bump when it's not running shudn't be a prblm.If I wer u, I would burn the imp things from drive to a DVD/backup and forget the ehole incident.
     
    The_Observer, Aug 14, 2008
    #2
  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,197
    Messages:
    28,841
    Likes Received:
    2,166
    Trophy Points:
    581
    That jagged HDTune is because other process / programs were using the HDD when HDTune was trying to test it. Either kill them or wait for the initial flurry of disk activity that happens when you start Windows to finish and then retest.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Aug 14, 2008
    #3
  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

    Reputations:
    4,412
    Messages:
    8,077
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    205
    those spikes seem to be caused by conflicting software or processes/services running in the background. Shut off some of the background processes by typing msconfig into the run command. Also run s defragment, and that should help make that hdtune nice and clean again.
    I think its just coincidence that the spikes occurred after the drop. I am sure you didn't hdtune it the day before it dropped, so its gotta be from software.

    Two yellow warnings in the smart readings, uggh. I am not sure if that is bad or not. Spin retry is not usually a good thing, but it is very common on seagate drives.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Aug 14, 2008
    #4