Mysterious hard drive failures and slow speeds

[mitsosvazelos84]

Hello guys ,

 

I have a seagate barracuda 500gb 7200rpm 16mb cache hard drive , and here's the deal ;When i first installed windows , it ran fine , then , a day after , performance dropped to 30mb/s ( read/write ) and the transfer speed were even lower at 3mb/s . I zero filled the drive and installed win7 again . Same thing , only that this time its painfully slow , it randomly freezes , internet speed is affected too topping out at 100-ish kb/s . Temps are normal at 40 degrees Celsius without a fan ( i have removed it , with a fan its like 35 ) and there is no indication of failure or malfunction , either mechanical or logical ,  not only because I cant recognize any , because seatoolls and HD tune as well as crystal disk info say so . It also seems to run at very fast rpm from times to times ... WTF .

 

my system specs ;

 

AMD athlon x4 750k

MSI a75ma-e35 mobo

8gb kingston blu 1600mhz

r7 260x 2GB OC by saphire

500W 80plus cooler master psu

 SEAGATE BARRACUDA 500GB SATAIII 3.5'' ST500DM002

corsair carbide spec o2

optical drive 

 

I have been trying to solve this for a month now , and its really getting my nerves , please help . If you need any further information , please let me know

 

tank you in advance

 

EDIT ;

 

thank you in advance , not tank you in advance

[Guest]

I've had several of these drives and they all failed within a month like no warning signs... then i got a WD Blue and Black drive, been about 4 months going great..

 

as for the slowness, have you tried defragmenting?

[mitsosvazelos84]

I've had several of these drives and they all failed within a month like no warning signs... then i got a WD Blue and Black drive, been about 4 months going great..

 

as for the slowness, have you tried defragmenting?

Yes 1 time , it made it slightly worse

 besides , the OS is a day old , but almost half full

[Guest]

sounds like that drive has Lots of bad sectors...

[mitsosvazelos84]

sounds like that drive has Lots of bad sectors...

what can I do about it  ? already zero filled ...

[Guest]

All I can say is invest in a new HHD and one from a different manufacturer like Western Digital, Samsung, toshiba...

 

or maybe even an SSD!

[mitsosvazelos84]

All I can say is invest in a new HHD and one from a different manufacturer like Western Digital, Samsung, toshiba...

 

or maybe even an SSD !

I own an ssd ... but his is troubleshooting sector I cant spend more money . any advice on how to actually troubleshoot the hdd ?

[Guest]

This PC ~> Right click...~> Properties...~> Tools Tab...~> Error Checking.. 

 

Although you've probably done that..  

[mitsosvazelos84]

This PC ~> Right click...~> Properties...~> Tools Tab...~> Error Checking.. 

 

Although you've probably done that..  

This PC ?

[Guest]

yeah. like when you open file explorer you'll see a list of tabs on the left hand side  

[mitsosvazelos84]

yeah. like when you open file explorer you'll see a list of tabs on the left hand side  

cant quite get you sorry

[Guest]

follow the steps...

[mitsosvazelos84]

I did , it wants to check on start up , start up check fails due to recently installed software