A processor issue or HDD?

[Bearbhai]

So guys I don't know what's happening, my computer is very slow... I mean veeeery slow for some apparent reason.
Now I have narrowed it down to either my dinosaur of a i3 (530 model) or my battle hardened HDD which has been running for the past 6 years or so. Anyway, when my pc starts up there is this audible revving noise something I'd associate with a car and then a metal click and the noise subsides, and again when you play games on it for long periods of time or watch a movie, an audible revving down can be heard and when the game/movie is closed there is a noticeable lag and the revving up can be heard.
Now a days I can't even lad up games like League of Legends without either entering the game late or hanging while loading, and then there is the random drops in frames and hangs.
Guys... halp...

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[Archangel1994]

Your HDD is kinda dying

[Bearbhai]

I kinda guessed.

But is it because of both or just the HDD?

[Archangel1994]

I kinda guessed.

But is it because of both or just the HDD?

Really the HDD since you mention revving sounds.

 

Also quote me so I get a notification

[Master Disaster]

The click makes me think its your HDD too. Try not to use it to much, get a new HDD asap and backup all your important stuff onto your new drive.

Do not run any disc repair utilities or other software designed to check the disc, all that will do is put extra strain on the disc and make it die faster.

[Bearbhai]

Thanks.
Kinda new here still don't know how everything works and all.
Quoting I mean.
:3

[c3p0_]

Can you do a test with this and see what it shows? But from the noise your hdd is dying

 

http://www.harddisksentinel.com/hdsentinel_trial_setup.zip

[Master Disaster]

Can you do a test with this and see what it shows? But from the noise your hdd is dying

 

http://www.harddisksentinel.com/hdsentinel_trial_setup.zip

Jesus Christ don't run anything on the drive. If its dying already how is testing gonna do anything other than make is die faster?

[c3p0_]

Jesus Christ don't run anything on the drive. If its dying already how is testing gonna do anything other than make is die faster?

 

Are you retarded? It shows the lifespawn left by reading smart data.

[Master Disaster]

Are you retarded? It shows the lifespawn left by reading smart data.

And it has to scan the drive in order to retrieve the data putting more strain on the drive than normal. Its 6 years old and there's little doubt its dying so what use is it knowing you've got 6 hours or 6 days left, its still the exact same outcome, replace the drive now if you want to backup before it dies totally.

[Hitman123]

Master disaster is right DONT PUT STRAIN ON HDD BACK UP ASAP

[Godlygamer23]

And it has to scan the drive in order to retrieve the data putting more strain on the drive than normal. Its 6 years old and there's little doubt its dying so what use is it knowing you've got 6 hours or 6 days left, its still the exact same outcome, replace the drive now if you want to backup before it dies totally.

I doubt it's that much strain as it's only looking for values. Nothing else.

[ggcs.tk]

Firstly, do not boot from your drive if you can avoid it.
Secondly, if you can boot off another device and pull your data off do so.
Thirdly, to prevent this happening again with no warning When you replace your drive go into your bios and turn on "S.M.A.R.T reporting" so you get a bios hang (press f?? to continue) when your drive starts to die why this is not on by default on so many Mainboards I do not know. (before someone jumps in SMART will not detect all issues but will pick up data that is indicative of a failing drive)


You mention your HDD is 6 years old back then the HDD Firmware was split in to two segments the first on a solid state chip and the second (including S.M.A.R.T) was on the platter and only available after your drive had been spun up.

 

if your drive was much newer (I believe less than 24 months old??) than the suggestion of running SMART tools would make sense (all the Firmware data is stored on solid state chips) as your drive is older I can confirm from experience running SMART can destroy a failing drive particularly if the drive platter is damaged or the LBA addresses (stored on the platter in the same area as the Smart tools) are corrupt.

Here is a image of how cheap/older drives store there firmware (SMART is part of the Firmware part II on most older drives):


More on S.M.A.R.T: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

Most S.M.A.R.T tools (from within windows) will need to spin up your drive to read data where the BIOS S.M.A.R.T detection uses the "HDD firmware" (for a lack of a better word) to check your S.M.A.R.T status BEFORE fully spinning up your disk (Dependant on mainboard and HDD support and interoperability)  hence why I recommend turning it on once you get a new drive.