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So, I have a 1tb hdd that I have been using for about 4 years and it has started acting up. It makes no special noise and the tests all came good (like S.M.A.R.T). Just the useage suddenly jumps up to 100% and response times reach to 8 SECONDS (YIKES). I restart the PC to no avail. I have to enable hotplugging and disconnect the hdd while the pc is running to get it back to normal. Does someone know the cause behind this and a permanent solution? 

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3 minutes ago, GT710 Connoisseur said:

So, I have a 1tb hdd that I have been using for about 4 years and it has started acting up. It makes no special noise and the tests all came good (like S.M.A.R.T). Just the useage suddenly jumps up to 100% and response times reach to 8 SECONDS (YIKES). I restart the PC to no avail. I have to enable hotplugging and disconnect the hdd while the pc is running to get it back to normal. Does someone know the cause behind this and a permanent solution? 

Disk is possibly very fragmented and needs to do a lot of searching to do anything at all? Try to optimise and defragment your HDD, it might help some

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Try a different SATA cable and port. If that doesn't help it's probably the disk having issues.

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15 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Disk is possibly very fragmented and needs to do a lot of searching to do anything at all? Try to optimise and defragment your HDD, it might help some

This, and probably back up data just in case it's dying

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19 hours ago, TatamiMatt said:

Disk is possibly very fragmented and needs to do a lot of searching to do anything at all? Try to optimise and defragment your HDD, it might help some

Ith defragments and optimizes every week.

 

 

 

19 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Try a different SATA cable and port. If that doesn't help it's probably the disk having issues.

The sata cable isn't an issue, as I just replug the power cable to fix it.

 

 

19 hours ago, manikyath said:

seagate barracuda by any chance?

 

that sounds like the behavior i see on very high seek error rate drives.

Its a WD Blue.

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