I'm Scared (HDD Issues w/ steam)

[Turtlelink]

Soooooo, I'm scared, i just recently began to notice that steam stop downloading at about halfway mark, along with the writing to disk to stop, and i know its not my internet because i have all firewall off, and my YouTube and Skype persists. I'm afraid my HDD is failing. I' would love some correction, but so confirmation wouldn't hurt i guess...

 

I know the picture says 444b/s but, that only happens for about 20 seconds then goes away.

[Molten]

I'm sorry to tell you, but you're wrong, it is your internet, this has nothing to do with your firewall it's because your internet is dropping out...

[Turtlelink]

How though, everything else works just fine, (Youtube, online games, skype) Steam is the only thing that doesn't

[Molten]

Just now, Turtlelink said:

How though, everything else works just fine, (Youtube, online games, skype) Steam is the only thing that doesn't

I don't know but it isn't your HDD

[Roawoao]

More likely to be internet than HDD failure but I'd just stoke your fears because that means you have no backup of your data.

 

So your hard drive is always doomed please back up your data (Ideally minimum two copies).

[Turtlelink]

7 minutes ago, Roawoao said:

More likely to be internet than HDD failure but I'd just stoke your fears because that means you have no backup of your data.

 

So your hard drive is always doomed please back up your data (Ideally minimum two copies).

 

7 minutes ago, Molten said:

I don't know but it isn't your HDD

The Thing is, i have two hard drives, one works, the other doesn't when i use steam

[Roawoao]

18 minutes ago, Turtlelink said:

 

The Thing is, i have two hard drives, one works, the other doesn't when i use steam

Both will fail eventually and you should never fear a hard drive failure if you have regular backups. More directly for your issue have you checked the SMART parameters to see if there is anything odd about the write errors or timeouts. Generally though the operating system itself will get very angry if the drive starts acting up.