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Help with buying new hard drive
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Stormin' Norman: Have you checked your administrative error logs to see if you are generating a lot of DISK or other errors? +1. Couple times I have had a drive that was throwing errors slow the entire system down - and there was no way to know about that unless one checked error logs and/or something like Hard Disk Sentinel. Sure. Just use the free version of HDTune and do a read benchmark curve. It'll give you some idea how really healthy the disk is. If there is a bad patch in the disk, it will likely show a characteristic result (a flat spot). HDTune can sometimes catch an issue, before the Reallocated Sector count field in SMART does. Paul |
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